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coratella, regular modern, curatella is the illiterate form and 
curata is used by Sacchetti probably by the same influ¬ 
ence 3 ; 
corriere, irregular through correre, currieri is of the Mom 
tale; 
cosi, irregular by analogy with colui, cotanto, costa, cola etc., 
cusi in the Chron. Pis., 46, and living in the Montagna, 
pistoiese; 
crostaceo, regular literary, crustaceo, irregular more literary;. 
focile, obsolete and irregular through the influence of fuoco, 
fucile is modern and regular; 
fondare, modern and regular, fundare in Machiavelli et al., 
literary (?); 
follone, in Giov. Yillani, fullone, both obsolete; 
forbondo, in the Centiloquio, furore, literary, analogy with 
furia; 
giocare, regular modern, giucare, giuchevole, giucolare, in the 
old writers passim, may be a reduction of giuocare, etc., 
or a trace of the development mentioned in §62; 
monastero, modern and regular, munastero in Fr. da Barberino; 
molino, perhaps semi-literary, mulino is the commioner and 
more popular form, both used to-day; 
obbedire and ubbidire are both regular, the latter more popular, 
the former maintained also by analogy to the other deriva¬ 
tives of OB- (observe that there is no obbidire or ubbedire) 
occidere, common everywhere in the old language, formerly re¬ 
tained by analogy to the compounds of OB-, uccidere is 
the regular modern form; 
officiate, more literary than ufficiale; 
oliva, semi-literary, uliva, the popular form; 
orsacchio, regular and also preserved by orso, ursacichio (obso¬ 
lete) is probably dialectic from a region where urso is 
used; 
porcellino, irregular through analogy with porco, purcellino is 
Aretine; 
robicondo (obsolete), dialectic, rubicondo, mod. literary, rubi- 
3. Cf. French cur6e. 
