 It will be seen that, although the letter p should seem to have been fully recognised, and it takes in the alphabetical arrangement the penultimate place assigned to it in the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, yet not unfrequently, through inadvertence or transitional...  Works of the Camden Society - Page 3971865Full view - About this book
 | English language - 1865 - 228 pages
...AngloSaxon : the infinitive, the infinitive of purpose (gerund), the verbal noun, and the participle." • It will be seen that, although the letter p should...it was generally in the following century, by a y. Thos we find " Bio erye, p. 40; Erye, or erthe; Eryyn, or of the erthe," p. 141 infra, and the like.... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 554 pages
...essay, it should be sufficient to extirpate that kind of verse forever." (Shenstone, Letters, No. 62.) " It will be seen that, although the letter p should seem to have been fully recognized," etc. (Prompt. Parv., preface, xlix.) The impersonal use of should where, according to... | |
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