 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 550 էջ
...progress of corruption in words to gain letters ;" and in the 131st page, that " Letters, like soldiers, are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march :" — they twice, in their 41st page, represent me as denyingthe possibility that any word should... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - 812 էջ
...progress of corruption in words to gain letters ; " and in the 131st page, that " Letters, like soldiers, are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march :" — they twice, in their 41st page, represent me as denying the possibility that any word should... | |
 | Thomas Oswald Cockayne - 1861 - 376 էջ
...than losses at the beginning or in the middle. Horne Tookes neat remark that " Letters like soldiers are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march " is most applicable to those in the rear. The final M or N is often omitted in greek, thus lat. Septem='EтTTa... | |
 | 1868 - 1236 էջ
...is another illustration of the saying of Home Tooke concerning words, that " letters, like soldiers, are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march." Boston is short for Botolph's ton, which is short for Saint Bartholomew's Town. There is a place named... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 680 էջ
...another illustration of the saying of Horne Tooke concerning words, that " letters, like soldiers, are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march." Boston is short for Botolph's ton, which is short for Saint Bartholomew's Town. There is a place named... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - 1887 - 622 էջ
...diminished in course of time by various forms of loss. ' Letters, like soldiers,' says Home Tooke2, are ' very apt to desert and drop off in a long march.'...loss. This will be 1 The AS form is invariably teld or getcld, a tent, with a verb tcldian, to cover. The d is original, and becomes High German / in ult.... | |
 | Henry Harrison - 1898 - 120 էջ
...should be met with.1 " Letters, like soldiers," that acute philologist Home Tooke once observed, " are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march." Of this truism the vicinity of Liverpool is not behind other districts in affording good illustrations.... | |
 | Armitage Goodall - 1914 - 330 էջ
...Godlay occurs. The meaning is ' the lea of Goda.' GOLCAR, Huddersfield. — ' Letters, like soldiers, are very apt to desert and drop off in a long march,' said Home Tooke ; and it would be very difficult to find a better illustration of the fact than that... | |
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, are ' very apt to desert and drop off in a long march. 