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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



NEW SERIES, 



No. LVIIL— JULY, 1865. 



ON ERRATA RECEPTA, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN. 



BY THE REV. DR. SCADDING, 



IIBBAEIAN TO THE CANADIAN IN8TITI7IB. 



(Continued from Vol. IX. p. 326.) 



III. FoBEiGN Words Anglicised — (continued.) 



3. Anglicised German Words. 



The bulk of our English speech is Anglo-Saxon ; and Anglo-Saxon 

 itself was, antecedently, a composite product of several Low German 

 dialects. It is no part of my undertaking to notice differences in 

 words essentially identical, differences occasioned by the legitimate 

 growth of a national language. Nor am I to remark upon unadul- 

 terated German words, or German words very nearly unadulterated, 

 such as gneiss, quartz, schale, spar (spath), felspar (felspathic), grau- 

 wacke, muschel-kalk, floetz, (schist is not German), gas, sitz, seidlitz, 

 nickel, mangel-wurzel, &c. These have been confessedly borrowed 

 by us for convenience, just as Germans, at the present time, are 

 borrowing terms, like essay, self-government, &e., from the English. 



I simply design to point out instances of words or terms which 

 have passed into our language from German dialects, but which, 

 after adoption and naturalization, have neither been preserved strictly 



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