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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 54 (search)
, Fly, fly from the world, O Bessy, with me, would lose half its charm if addressed to Bessie. In the same way, Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, would melt into insignificance if put into the new mould of Kittie; and what should we do with Dibdin's chorus — if Dibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In olDibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In old English books we find the words now ending in y to end usually in ie-a form which we still preserve in their plurals-and may note in successive editions the gradual substitution, for instance, of philanthropy for philanthropie. Chaucer has flie for fly, and folie for folly. Y superseded ie by an unconscious tendency some two centuries ago; and now, in case of the familiar names of both sexes, this tendency is being unconsciously and very gradually reversed. It is only a few years since Salli
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
eks ald city weeks, 34. Cowper, William, 19. Craddock, C. E. See Marfree, M. N. Creator of The home, the, 28. Cross, M. A. (George Eliot), quoted, 78. Also 88, 158, 249, 252, 260, 263, 290. Crowne, Johnny, 5. D. Dabney, Charles, 170. Danton, G. J., 6. D'Arblay, Madame, 157. Darwin, Charles, quoted, 99. Also 23, 308. Darwin, Dr., Erasmus, 114. Daughters of Toil, The, 70. Davidson sisters, the, 289. De Quincey, Thomas, quoted, 110. Defoe, Daniel, 285. Dibdin, Charles, quoted, 278. Dickens, Charles, quoted, 94, 195. Also 109, 285. Diderot, Denis, 178. Dinner, difficulties of the, 240. Dix, Dorothea, 20. dolls, the discipline of, 264. Domestic service, 172. Douglas, Catherine, 56. Douglas, Ellen, 55. Dudevant, A. L. A. (George Sand), 88, 249, 252, 260, 263. E. Edgeworth, Maria, quoted, 78. Also 157, 180. Edison, T. A., 209. Edmunds, George F., 137. Edward II., 213. Egypt, preservation of royalty in, 109. Emerson