"Consonants of most obdurate sound are joined together without one softening vowel to intervene; and all this only to make one syllable of two, directly contrary to the example of the Greeks and Romans, and a natural tendency towards relapsing into barbarity. And this is still more visible in the next refinement, which consists in pronouncing the first syllable in a word that has many, and dismissing the rest. Thus we cram one syllable and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs to prevent their running away; and if ours be the same reason for maiming our words, it will certainly answer the end, for I am sure no other nation will desire to borrow them." I have only to add (see _Blackwood's Magazine_, vol. ii., 1842) that "mob is _mobile_." _Cash_ appears to be from the French _caisse_, a chest, cash. J. W. THOMAS. Dewsbury. _Cash_ is from the French _caisse_, the moneychest where _specie_ was kept. So _caissier_ became "cashier," and _specie_ "cash." _Mob_, Swift tells us (_Polite Conversation_, Introd.), is a contraction for _mobile_. CLERICUS RUSTICUS has not, I fear, Johnson's _Dictionary_, where both these derivations are given. C. _Ampers &._ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol. viii. _passim_).--MR. INGLEBY may well ask what "and-per-se-and" can mean. The fact is, this is itself a corruption. In old spelling-books, after the twenty-six letters it was customary to print the two following symbols with their explanations &c. et cetera. & (per se), and. Children were taught to read the above "et-cee, et cetera" and "et-per-se, and." Such, at least, was the case in a Dublin school, some ninety years ago, where my informant, now many years deceased, was educated. As _se_ was not there pronounced like _cee_, but like _say_, there was no danger of confounding the two names. In England, where a different pronunciation of the Latin word prevailed, such confusion would be apt to occur; and hence, probably, English teachers substituted _and_ for _et_; from which, in course of time, the other corruptions mentioned by MR. LOWER were developed. E. H. D. D. {525} _The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The following account is taken from Burke's _Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_, Lond. 1841: