1090 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 
(c) Cases of Doublets. —The regular form in s- is placed 
first, whether obsolete or modern: 
schermidore, modern, eschermidore, in Cavalcanti; 
schifare and schivard, modern, eschifare, in S. Caterina; 
scialare, modern popular, esalare, modern literary; 
sciame, modern, esciame, obsolete; 
sciugare, illiterate, asciugare, mod. (prefix confu¬ 
sion) ; 
sciutto, in Jacopone and living asciutto; modern; 
among the peasants and at 
Siena, 
scluso, mod. illit., 
scremento, mod. illit., 
scrizione, mod. illit., 
scrude’re, mod. peasant, 
spansivo, obsolete, 
specialmente, mod., 
sponere, illit., sporre, pop., 
spotico, pop. “padrone spotico”, 
sprete, peasant, 
spugnare, obsolete, 
stanza, 14th century, 
state, pop. (and sta), 
stigare, 13th-16th centuries, 
stimare, mod., 
stituire, illit. and peasant, 
stituzione, illit. and 14th cent., 
straneo, Cavalcanti, 
straordinario, mod., 
stravagante, mod., 
stremamente, popular, 
stribuire, 14th century, 
strigare, mod., 
strione, obsolete, 
struire, illit., 
struziond, 13th and 14th centur¬ 
ies. 
The examples, listed in the three classes above, seem to in¬ 
dicate the development of all these forms to I. This develop¬ 
ment was thwarted in two ways: first, the regularly tendency 
to drop the I 2 3 , and secondly, the learned (and occasionally dia¬ 
lectic) tendency towards E. 
19. Other Words. —The development is to I, as usual. Ex¬ 
amples : cicala, disagio, discorrere, disdire, disfare, dispiacere, 
2. Escaiolo, etc., preserve the E by analogy with esca; escire, escita, 
“more popular than uscird, etc.”, by esco, esci, etc.,—cf. scire (13th 
century). 
3. Of course, the reasons for this dropping are very simple: elision 
of the weak I after a word ending with a vowel would explain most 
cases,—lo istesso lo ’stesso. In this particular case, l’istesso happens 
to be still fairly common, beside lo stesso. Cf. §85. 
escluso, mod. lit.; 
escremento, mod. literary; 
iscrizione, mod.; 
escludere, mod. literary; 
espansivo, mod. literary; 
espezialmente, obsolete; 
esporre, semi-literary; 
despotico, dispotico, mod.; 
ex-prete; 
espugnare, mod.; 
istanza, mod.; 
estate, mod.; 
istigare, mod.; 
estimare, mod., not popular; 
istituire, mod.; 
istituzione, mod.; 
estraneo, mod. lit.; 
estraordinario, obsolete; 
estravagante, obsolete; 
estre'mamente, mod.; 
distribuire, mod.; 
estricare, obsolete; 
istrione (from HI STRIONE-); 
istruire, mod.; 
