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128. The elements of woo are sequents in English and Latin, as in wool, vvLTVRNYVS, but 
not in Greek, where they would be likely to be submitted to a naturalising process akin 
to that which produced the three forms—English wolf (=Ang. Vulf,) German wolf, and 
Swedish wif. This process would be used with caution in proper names, which some would 
naturalise and others present in their true pronunciation. Except in the case termination, 
As'xog is a genuine transliteration of LYcIVS; TvAxoc and Byooc are naturalised forms of 
TVLLIVS and vERvS, the former with French w, the latter with 6, an interchange (English 
b, w,) which is common in Sanscrit. But Greek £, #, », are no more identic than English 
6, w, and German w, in the proper name Weltzhoover, which is pronounced in these three 
modes (and sometimes written and printed with 6,) in Maryland and Pennsylvania. 
129. We can now account for the want of uniformity in the Greek orthography of Latin 
names, such as— 
VALERIVS Ovarépeog Baképeos 
SEVERVS Scovnooc Leeqpoc Sevq po SePRpoc 
FLAVIVS Phaodiog Phaveoc Did Brog 
NERVA Nepovac NéopPBac 
VARRO Ova p pw Bappwv 
AVRELIVS AvpyAcoc ARISTOBVLVS Apeatobshoc 
OCTAVIVS Oxztaovdiocg TIBVR TcBepa 
IVLIVS Tobhioc LIVIVS Acétoc 
VVLTVRNVS OdovAtT OD pYOS VERRES Béeppng 
130. Appreciatiny the inaccuracy of seeming to string four or five vowels in a line (V 
being oo,) the Romans sometimes used the digamma inverted (to keep it distinct from their 
F,) writing OCTAdIAE, SERIVS (the modern sERvuS,) and the like, to be seen in inscriptions. 
Dialectically, this a may have had the power of German w (Spanish 6 between vowels,) 
as we find BERVM for VERVM. 
131. Therewas probably a Spanish dialect of Latin paralleled by an Ellenic dialect of Greek, 
an Arabic dialect of Hebrew, and a Sanscrit dialect of some unknown original. For, in 
some cases, a language pure in the morning, may have sloughed off a dialectic ulcer in 
the afternoon of the same day, and the organs which could open sufficiently for drig and 
kin in summer, might close to the aperture required for bridge and chin, when opposed to 
the blasts of winter. 
132. The greatest corruptions occur when the language instinct has become enervated. 
Then szxt is perverted to “sixth,” although forbidden by a law of the language. Then 
some one may say “of like” for alike, as “almost” is said for amost (perhaps an old dative 
akin to the German am meisten,) and “out of doors” for owt adoors—mistaking for a plural 
sign the adverbial -s of towards, whence, since, twice, else, VIX, BIS, dc, ds (backwards,) the 
v of ai (back) becoming x or g, as in Ellenic. Compare jadpoc and ddépoc (violent.) 
