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From the ninth century down to the present, one language — English — has always been spoken by the people of our land. To make this clear is the aim kept in view throughout all the etymological sections of this hand- book. For obvious reasons, Orthography and Orthoepy are but briefly noticed. The repetitions seen in the earlier sections on Etymo- logy are traits belonging to the plan of the book. There are readers who would first of all notice chiefly om* modern forms and their classification. Others would study the union of the old and the new. For the con- venience of the former, an asterisk is here and there pre- fixed to historical paragraphs that may be omitted, and facts, already given in treating of old forms, are named again where new forms are classified. In the Table of Contents titles of elementary sections, and parts of sections, are set in capitals. These parts of the work may ibe viewed as a first course of lessons. For the parts of speech, their old nomenclature is mostly retained. Adjectives are sometimes called * Participles,' because their stems are used in verbs, and for the same reason certain Nouns are described as '' Gerunds.' At the same time some errors of classifica