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Rh in what hort time their vnlearned parentes, friendes, and other acquaintance which they haue occaion to trafick and deale with, haue learned to reade, and ome peraduenture to write, after the following maner, they knowe they may turne their penne to ve it, or leaue it when they lit. And then there may be good hope that in hort time therafter, it will be generally ved. For if euery one learned may ve it with the turning of his hande, they all maye conent therevnto, within the turning of one Moneth. Nowe in what maner we doe miname our letters, you may vndertande by that which followeth. As for example. For uch as are learned in the names of things, by termes of other languages than their mother tongue, and yet vndertanding thereby the thing ment, no doubt but they finde it ufficient for them o to ve the ame names they haue learned, though vndertanding the etymologie and meaning of uch termes by their owne peach, they may well thinke howe it houlde giue the hearers (being onely acquainted with their mother tongue) the better ignification of the thing wherfore it is poken. But it mut néedes be, that eyther blind affectation in ome, and nice curioitie, or vaine imitation in others, haue caued our predeceors to conent to certaine traunge termes, when their owne mother peach might much better expree the qualitie of the thing (from the mother and nure) to their ucceion. Howbeit, I mut confee it beautifieth an Orators tale, which knoweth what he peaketh, and to whom: but it hindereth the vnlerned from vndertanding of the matter, and caueth many of the Countrie men to peake chalke for chéee, and o nickname uch traunge tearmes as it pleaeth many well to heare them: as to ay for temperate, temporall: for urrender, ullender: for tature, tatute: for abiea, obiea: for heare, heier: certiffied, for both certified, and atified: dipence, for upence: defende, for offende: urgiant, for urgian: which the French terme chirurgian, which is fleh clener. In like maner the French and we doe vse Bicuyte, which ignifieth twie backt: and for the Duen héeder, furner, deriued from Four an Duen: Barbier of Barbe, we aye Barber, which deriued from the Englihe Primitiue Bearde, Rh