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 138 VL A™, w, uoa NOTES AND QUERIES. tions it may, I think, safely be said that ther is not any town, village, or hamlet in t.h northern half of Yorkshire of which th name ends in -lit*, -leth, or -lith. The suffix -leth would seem to require explanation. I is not to be found in the list of suffixes at th° end of Canon Taylor's 'Words and Places [s it connected by any chance with the A -S hlith, a slope 1 T. P. ARMSTRONG. Timperley. " PHUTATORIU9 " AND " GASTRIPHERE8 " (9l 8. vi. 48).—These names occur in ' Tristram Shandy.' They only appear in connexion with the visitation attended by Mr. Rhandv. TTncl Toby, and Parson Yorick, when the las' inquired if the mistake in Tristram's name could be rectified. Phutatorius was the victin: in the humorous and entertaining "hot chestnut "episode, for which read chaps, xxvii and xxviii., vol. iv. WILLIAM BRADBROOK. "IN GORDANO" (9th S. v. 126. 254, 359 ; vi 53).—I do not insist on the derivation ol Gordano from Gorges through the Latin Gordus, but I still think it probable, and do not perceive that the Quotation from the 'Testa de Nevill' contradicts it. Given that Gordanus (or Gordinus) would be the ad- iectival form of Gordus, then the ' Testa de Nevill,' speaking in Latin of Emoric Gorges, would not unnaturally call him by his terri- torial appellation Emericus de Gordano, sc. astro, iust as De Bipariis, sc. iflrm=B,ivers. That Emericus de Gardino, or Gordein, was of an earlier date than the Wraxall family does not show that his name was not, in English, Gorges. ALDENHAM. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTKP (9"1 S. i. 29.198).— Vino vendibili suspenaa hedera non opus eat. This (minus the word "eat") appears as one of the 'Sentences' of Publius Syrus in " OEuvres Completes d'Horace, de Juvenal, de Perse de Phedre. de Syrus, avec la Traduetion en Francais, nubliees sous la direction de M. Nisard. Paris, 1839 "(p 810). I have not found it in any of my other collections of the ' Sententiae.' Nisard's collection amounts to 1.107, while that of Gruter. ' L. Anntei Senecsp et P. Syri Sententice,' 1708, does not exceed 857 lines. ROBERT PIF.RPOINT. NOTES ON BOOKS. *c. The Eniilvih Dialtrt Dictionary. Edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D.-Vol. II. T>-O. (Frowde.) RAPID progress ig now, it is satisfactory to think, being made with this groat and important work. The appearance of the fifth part, completing (he first volume, was 'noticed in 9th S. i. 498, at which reference an account was given of the aims, methods, and resources of the editor, and the extent of the labour involved. Vol. ii., completing the work up to the end of the letter G, is before us; and vol. iii., containing the letters TT—L. will, it is hoped, be ready by the close of the vear. A fourth volume will cover M—R. a fifth S—T, and a sixth the remainder of the alphabet. By the close of the present series of ' N. & Q.' accordingly, if not earlier, we may hope to see the completion of two out of the three great works to the production of which we have lent our pleased and cordial co-operation, the great 'Oxford Dictionary." the 'Dialect Dic- tionary.'and the' Dictionary of National Biography." nrtw all but the supplement in the hands of the nnhlic. Vol. vi. will, it is anticipated, constitute the most interesting and valuable of all, containing as it will the supplement, the bibliography of all the books cited in the 'Dictionary.' arranged ac- cording to counties, and, better still, as we are disposed to hold, a comparative grammar of the dialects. The importance of this cannot easily be over-estimated. A large amount of material for it has already been accumulated. Prof. Wright has started a phonograph, with the object of ac- quiring a large number of specimens of the dialects, which may at the same time enable him to check the accumulations for his 'Comparative Grammar.' and leave permanently on record the method of pronouncing dialects at the close of the nineteenth century. Specimens of this and directions mav be obtained on application to the Professor in Oxford. Having supplied this information, it seems ex- pedient to recapitulate the advantages that, will attend the execution of the work. An almost unioue duality about it is that it. is complete and inal. Admirably serviceable as it is to us at pre- sent, the ' Dictionary of National Biographv* will need continual supplements. Who at the close of the twentieth century will be content with a work that gives next to no information concerning the close of the nineteenth? The position of the student will differ but slightly from that of a man who seeks to obtain information concerning the actors in the drama of to-day from the Vapereau ' Biographic des Contemporains") of yesterday. Tn
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earlier letters must necessarily be incomplete before ,he last letters are finished. Science, with its ever ncreasing demands and its attempts at nicety and exactitude of definition and classification, and the iress and current spepnh. with their ignorant, per- istent. and vulgar effort, to corrupt and degrade he languncre, will add countless words to those ilready collected, and will find forms, such as tnn- "wrwrwM, which will knock at dictionary doors .nd never be refused admission. In the case of he 'Dialect Dictionary" the work may well prove xhaustive and final. Dialect will never greatly nlarge its borders; rather will it in the end ie out. Languages even run a risk of a similar ind. We shall not soon forget, the words f a Breton farmer whom we asked concern- ng his language. " Mv father." said he. "speaks treton and no French, I speak French and Breton, nd my son speaks French and no Breton." Three enerations were thus enough to substitute one aneruage for another. One must now go far afield to nd any one abln to speak a dialect, as it was onc« poken. West Riding speech as it was known half century ago seems moribund, like traits of West ,iding character. Another thing the utility of