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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...A. H. Murray. f 3. the softening of the initial qu into wh or w, as quart changed into whart in 1. 649, He wolde suffer for a whart of wine; quite (requite) changed to white in 1. 770, The blisful Martir white jow jowre mede; (yet in 1. 1032 the q is kept, ffor euer more fer maie no golde hem qwyte;) quick (alive) changed to whike in l. 629, and whikke in 1. 1015, Ther nas toAi&e-siluer litarge or bremstone, 629. Not fully whikke ne fulli dede fei were, 1015; qwoke changed to whoke, 1. 1576, ffore ire he whoke, no lenger wolde he bide; square changed to sioare, Of yren grete & sware as any sparre; squire changed to swiere, though that is an old form (Gawayne Green Knight, 824), in lines 1410, 1440,1498, 1554, An al alone, saue onely o swiere, 1410.1 4. the Northern and Irish rolling of the r, producing sometimes the insertion of an e between the r and the m or n following it, as in terems for termes, 1. 639, tereme for terme, 1. 3028, A fewe terems had he, two or thre, 639; aremes for arms, 1. 874, And aft his hoste in aremes be his side; sterene for sterne, 1. 2154, 2610, Armed ful wele wij hertes sterene and stoute. To this cause I put the doubling of the r in Chiualrrye, 1. 878, By Theus & be his Chiualrrye. 1 Compare Hampole's swynacy for quinsy, the disease 'Jat greves ful sare.'--Pricke of Conscience, p. 82, 1. 2999. The drongen of 1. 6371 for drurilcen, is provincial too, I suppose; as also schat, 1594, for shalt; Ifu, 1127, for ful; scleere, l. 1264, for sledere; hoe for obe (oath), 1. 959 j hall for all, 1967; Imayght, 1. 1236, for mi. The huntyn for huntyng, 1687, aze- for axyng, 1826, are carelessnesses which show how easily the old gerund, would pass into the noun. The introduction of an n before gn, as in singne, 1. 226, ...
