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Excerpt from Synopsis of Old English Phonology: Being a Systematic Account of Old English Vowels and Consonants and Their Correspondences in the Cognate Languages
It would give me great pleasure if I could think that this little work would be of use to some of those who are interested in the hunt after English etymologies. But alas! I know from long experience that many of these etymological Nimrods are defiantly lawless per sons, and some there be amongst them that scoff at the very name of 'laullehre.' However, that some treatise like the present work is needed we may I think rightly infer from an equation I have just met with in a book written by a distinguished English scholar, which only appeared a few weeks ago. The English word deer (we are told) Greek Hfip. That this equation is utterly impossible is of course proved both by the Vocalism of the Old English form and by the Consonantism of its Gothic equivalent d'z'us. It is not too much to say that popular Etymological Dictionaries of the English language swarm with such impossible equations. Never mind, the day of 'laulle/z re' is coming! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
