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*'doff;" "do out," "douf," "d'huit," "doit;" and "natheless" 

 gives no sign of its being "ne'er the less." " Sevenniglit " is now 

 "sennight;" "moneth," "month;" "sithence," "since." "Prithee" 

 and " good bye " we write as we utter, although the first, of course, 

 is *' I pray thee ;" and the latter, " Deus vobiscum," " God be with 

 you." 



Proper names which, as being foreign in their origin, exhibited a 

 few years since, an apostrophe, are now printed without it ; and the 

 capital which followed it is reduced to the ranks. Were it the plea- 

 sure of Mr. Disraeli to take one more liberty with his patronymic, 

 and terminate it with a y instead of an i, the next generation would 

 scarcely notice in it any trace of Hebrew origin. 



On- observing a review lately of the Life of a certain Capodistrias, 

 I by no means recognized in a moment an old acquaintaince, Capo- 

 d' Istrias, whose name was familiar in mens' mouths at the time of 

 the Greek Revolution. 



In like manner, Dorsay, Darcy, Doily, Dacier, are now common 

 forms. This Anglicising process in regard to proper names of foreign 

 origin, is, however, nothing new. Dalton, Dexter, Denroche, Danger- 

 field, and many another family appellation in D, were once written 

 with an apostrophe. Dexter and Dangerfield suffer two violations ; 

 the one being properly D'Exter, i.e., of Exeter, and the other 

 D'Aungerville, not involving "field" at all. Diaper from d'lpres, 

 and Dindon from d'Inde are examples well known. 



In another set of names which originally began with a vowel, a dis- 

 guise' is produced by the elision of the article ; as in Langley, Larcher, 

 &c. In others, again, it is the Anglicised sound only that causes us 

 to forget that they are properly French, as Mallet, Calmet. 



In this connexion it may be added that although the pronunciation 

 Pree-do may be cultivated in some families, plain Cornishmen, among 

 whom the name is common, persist in making it Pn-deaux, with an a?, 

 just as the rest of England will say Vaux and Jacques. And so I re- 

 member at Cambridge, Professor Prime's name continued as it was, 

 notwithstanding an effort at one time to improve it into de la Prime, 

 So to recal Seymour and Sinclair to Saint Maur and St. Clair is as 

 bootless an undertaking as it would be to resolve back into Hugh de 

 Bras, the immortal Hudibras. 



(To be continued.) 



Vol. IX. I. 



