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Some of our Irish scholars are under an extraordinary misapprehension regarding this word,. They imagine it is derived from the word =devil. ''It is not. It simply means "re-doubled." When some of our learned men meet they call it "like a fiend." But when they meet they have to call it what it really means,'' "five-fold."

''The people's instinct has enabled them to give the true meaning of the word in their own broken English. Here is how they manage it:—''