Observations Introductory to a Work on English Etymology (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It 15 impossible to conceive, without painful experience, what obstacles must be encountered during the investigation, not only of corrupt expressions, but numerous omissions, mutations, and transpositions of letters, by which nations, as they became more refined, endeavoured to please the ear by euphony. This confusion has been increased, in many cases, by the introduction of a foreign alphabet unadapted to the organic sounds of particular languages such as the Sclavonian and Irish, where several consonants are put together fbr what might be expressed by a sihgle letter. And still more provoking, if possible, is the barbarous articulation of such conquerors as those who have changed Constanti nople, Athens, and Nicaea, into Stambul, Settines, and Ishie.

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