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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. 1890 Excerpt: ... of speech. N. S. S. Germantown. Mysterious Music of the Mascagoula (Vol. iii, p. 80).--In Goode's " American Fishes," it is suggested that the drum-fish may cause the musical sounds in question. But, if so, why is this kind of music so very local? The so-called musical sands, or singing sands, found at a good many widely separated places, are said to be explainable by physical laws. There are singing sands on the Sinai peninsula; others, I believe, near Gloucester, Mass. G. Transmutation of Words.--You have had several notes on the transmutations undergone by proper names and generic words through phonetic decay and otherwise. I send the two following examples which have suggested themselves to my mind in the course of an idle morning. Every reader of history is familiar with the old Francic king Chlodwig. This name became Latinized and smoothed into Lodovicus, Ludovicus, and then, by an admixture of the Teutonic and Latin elements, into Chlovis, Clovis. Finally the name assumed its French, Spanish and English forms of Louis, Luis, Lewis, Lewes and (familiarly) Lu Lu, Loo. In the Highlands of Scotland Ludovic is still a common Christian name. A yet more curious exampleof word change, as affected by the genius of different tongues, is seen in the English word bishop and the French eve que. Both are from Latin episcopus, Greek episkopos. The English strikes off the initial and terminal syllables, leaving only piscop. This, the Saxons, with their preference for the softer labial and hissing sounds, modified into bishop. Eveque (formerly evesque) is as obviously from the same stem by softening the p into v and retaining the initial e. In reference to this latter example, let me say that I am not aware of any other two words from a common stem so modi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231132180
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231132183
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 386 gr

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