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Pagina 1
When the same words appear under altered forms in different members of the
same family of languages , the diversity of form is found to have a regular method
and analogy . Such an analogy has been established between the varying ...
When the same words appear under altered forms in different members of the
same family of languages , the diversity of form is found to have a regular method
and analogy . Such an analogy has been established between the varying ...
Pagina 34
Even there , however , alteration has taken place . Man spells in old Saxon as in
modern English , but yet it has altered in grammatical habit , in application , and
in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a ...
Even there , however , alteration has taken place . Man spells in old Saxon as in
modern English , but yet it has altered in grammatical habit , in application , and
in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a ...
Pagina 35
So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest - moving of words
, which has not altered in its spelling , and which is yet seen to have undergone
alterations of another kind . The other instances shall be more lightly touched on
...
So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest - moving of words
, which has not altered in its spelling , and which is yet seen to have undergone
alterations of another kind . The other instances shall be more lightly touched on
...
Pagina 81
These words are still in our language , and beyond these there are large
numbers of French words in Chaucer which have since been disused , or so
much altered as to be of questionable identification . All such have been omitted
from this list ...
These words are still in our language , and beyond these there are large
numbers of French words in Chaucer which have since been disused , or so
much altered as to be of questionable identification . All such have been omitted
from this list ...
Pagina 95
This uniformity of sense over a wide area is evidence that the word has not
altered much in sense since its distribution over that area . This sort of argument
is not applicable to a national expression ; but to a provincial one it is . The
reason of ...
This uniformity of sense over a wide area is evidence that the word has not
altered much in sense since its distribution over that area . This sort of argument
is not applicable to a national expression ; but to a provincial one it is . The
reason of ...
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