[26] In Hampshire.
[27] In Northern Germany.
[28] The Eyder.
[30] Saxons North of the Elbe (Albis).
[32] De Mor. Germ. 40.
[33] Meaning ditch
[34] This list is taken from Smart's valuable and logical English Grammar.
[35] As in Shotover Hill, near Oxford.
[36] As in Jerusalem artichoke.
[37] A sort of silk.
[38] Ancient Cassio—"Othello."
[40] Or periphrastic.
[41] That of the verb substantive, if I were, subjunctive, as opposed to I was, indicative.
[42] This by no means implies that such was the power of σ, ζ, γ, κ, in Greek. They are merely convenient symbols.
[43] As a name, Sigma = Samech.
[44] Of the Hebrew and Greek tables.
[45] In thin.
[46] In thine.
[47] Write one letter twice.
[48] This explains the words, "Whatever they may have been originally," and "to a certain extent," in § 212.
[49] Used as adverbs.
[50] Used as the plurals of he, she, and it.
[51] Different from ilk.
[52] Or call-s.
[53] Thou sangest, thou drankest, &c.—For a reason given in the sequel, these forms are less exceptionable than sungest, drunkest, &c.
[54] The forms marked thus * are either obsolete or provincial.
[55] Obsolete.
[56] Sounded wun.
[57] Pronounced ment.
[58] Pronounced herd.
[59] Pronounced sed.
[60] So pronounced.
[61] Pronounced leevd, cleevd, bereevd, deeld, feeld, dreemd, lernd.
[62] Pronounced delt.
[63] Found rarely; bist being the current form.—"Deutsche Grammatik," i. 894.
[64] Notwithstanding the extent to which a relative may take the appearance of a conjunction, there is always one unequivocal method of deciding its true nature. The relative is always a part of the second proposition. A conjunction is no part of either.
[65] "Latin Prose Composition," p. 123.
[66] This is worked out more fully in the "Germany of Tacitus, with Ethnological Notes," by the present author.
[67] Preserved in the name of the town Wick-war.
[68] "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," by Professor Creasy.
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