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138 as they are now. The letters k and f are akin to each other; the Sanscrit katvar is the Gothic fidvor (four), and the Lithuanian dwy-lika is our twâ-lifa (twelve). With us, Livorno becomes Leghorn; and in Aberdeen&shy;shire kwa (the Latin quis) is pronounced fa. No change seems to have been made in the sounds when dun and ur were written as doun and our in the Creed before us. The English word for domus is to this day pronounced in Northumberland as hoose. This, in parts of Yorkshire, is corrupted into ha-oose; if this last be pronounced rapidly, it gives house, as it is sounded by good speakers of English in our day. It is hard to know why us should be spelt now as it was a thousand years ago, and yet why ur should be turned into our.

EAST MIDLAND.

(A.D. 1240.)