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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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|INTRODUCTION.<strong>the</strong> bej^nning <strong>of</strong> a word. The following are nearly all <strong>the</strong>commoner examples <strong>of</strong> it\ and may as well be learnt atnncc ; viz. vce or vse (use), viler (utter), vp (up), vpnn (upon),and <strong>the</strong> prefix vn- (un-). Many readers are impatient <strong>of</strong>learning this easy lesson, and hence it is common <strong>to</strong> find,even in well-edited editions <strong>of</strong> old authors, that <strong>the</strong> v's and//'s are altered so as <strong>to</strong> suit <strong>the</strong> modern taste; yet a verylittle attention soon overcomes this difficulty, which is, afterall, but a small matter <strong>to</strong> be discouraged at. A learner <strong>of</strong>French or German has <strong>to</strong> encounter greater difficulties than<strong>the</strong>se, and Old <strong>English</strong> is as well worth a little pains asei<strong>the</strong>r one or <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r.Occasionally even lu is used for u. Hence <strong>the</strong> words swe,remicc (p. 29) are for sue, remue ; and, in one instance, wefind <strong>the</strong> curious form dywlgat = dyuulgat = dyvulgat = divulged.Insome examples <strong>of</strong> Lowland Scotch (Sections VI, XIII),:

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