"I think that _gallicæ_ is a new word, which was begun to be used not long before Cicero's time, therefore used by him in the Second of the _Antonians_. 'Cum gallicis,' says he, 'et lacerna cucurristi.' Nor do I read it in any other writer of authority, but other words are employed." The Romans named shoes after persons and places as we do: for examples, see Dr. W. Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_, sub voc. "Calceus." B. H. C. Poplar. This word is not of American derivation. In the _Promptorium Parvulorum_ we find,-- "GALACHE or GALOCHE, undersolynge of manny's fote." Mr. Way says in his note: "The galache was a sort of patten, fastened to the foot by cross latchets, and worn by men as early as the {471} time of Edward III. Allusion is made to it by Chaucer, 'Ne were worthy to unbocle his galoche.'--_Squires Tale_, 10,869." Among many other quotations Mr. Way gives the following: "To geten hym gilte spores, Or galoches y-couped."--_Piers Ploughman_, 12,099. And in the _Wardrobe Book of Prince Henry_, A.D. 1607, are mentioned-- "1 pair of golossians, 6s.; 16 gold buckles with pendants and toungs to buckle a pair of golosses."--_Archæol._ xi. 93. Nares says: "GALAGE. A clown's coarse shoe from _galloche_, a shoe with a wooden sole, old French, which itself is supposed to be from _gallica_, a kind of shoe mentioned by Cicero, _Philip._ ii. 30., and A. Gellius, xiii. 21. If so, the word has returned to the country whence it was first taken, but I doubt much of that derivation; by the passages referred to in the above authors, it seems more likely that the _gallica_ was a luxurious covering, than one so very coarse as the galloche. Perhaps the _caliga_, or military strong boot of the Romans, from which Caligula was named, may be a better origin for it. The word _galloche_ is now naturalised among us for a kind of clog, worn over the shoes." See also Richardson's _Dictionary_, s. v. "Galoche." ZEUS. SELEUCUS need not have gone quite so far as to "the tribe of North American Indians, the Goloshes," or to America at all, for his derivation. If he will look in his French dictionary he will find,-- "_Galoche_ (espèce de mule que l'on porte par dessus les souliers), galoshoe." I quote from Boyer's _Dictionnaire Royal_, edit. 1753. Cole, in his English dictionary, 1724, has-- "_Galeges_, _galages_, _galloches_, _galloshoes_, Fr., wooden shoes all of a piece. With us outward shoes or cases for dirty weather, &c." C. DE D. * * * * * CONSONANTS IN WELSH. (Vol. ix., p. 271.) For the gratification of your correspondent J. M., I give you the result of an enumeration of the _letters_ and _sounds_ in three versions of the Hundredth Psalm in Welsh, and three corresponding versions of it in English. 1. From the authorised translations of the Bible, Welsh and English.