Among the following curious, incompatible, or hĭbrid[87] names, titles (except that of 'General') have been mistaken for proper names--Horatio Himmereich, Owen Reich, Caspar Reed, Dennis Loucks, Baltzer Stone, Addison Shelp, Paris Rudisill, Adam Schuh, Erasmus Buckenmeyer, Peter Pence, General Wellington H. Ent, General Don Carlos Buel, Don Alonzo Cushman, Sir Frank Howard, Always Wise (probably for Alŏîs Weiss). In November, 1867, Gilbert Monsieur Marquis de Lafayette Sproul, asked the legislature of Tennessee to cut off all his names but the last two. FOOTNOTES: [70] Shrove-tide cakes--with the PG. pronunciation, except _st_. [71] G. Knochen (bones). [72] A teacher asked a class--If I were to cut an apple in two, what would you call one of the pieces? "A _half_." And in four? "A _fourth_." And if I cut it in eight equal pieces, what would one of them be? "A _snit_!" [73] Compare--O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element's below.--_King Lear_, act 2, sc. 4, speech 20, v. 54. --_A. J. Ellis._ [74] The German word appears to be _gautschen_ without the _n_. So Schmeller (Bayerisches Wörterbuch, 2, 87) "_gautschen_, _getschen_, schwanken, schaukeln." Adelung (Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, 2, 439) explains it as a technical paper-maker's word for taking the sheets out of the mould and laying them upon the press-board, _Gautschbret_. He adds that a carrying chair was formerly called a _Gautsche_, and refers it to _Kutsche_ and French _coucher_.--_A. J. E._ [75] Compare Papageno's song in Mozart's _Zauberflöte_: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja Stets lustig, heisa, hopsasa.--_A. J. Ellis._ [76] Known probably throughout England. Known to me, a Londoner, from earliest childhood.--_A. J. Ellis._ [77] The geographical names at the close of Chapter I. p. 6, are Kentucky, Safe Harbor, Syracuse, and Pinegrove. The drags are aloes (pronounced as in Latin!), paregoric, citrine ointment, acetic acid, hiera piera, cinnamon, Guiana pepper, gentian, cinchona, opium, hive syrup, senna and manna mixed, sulphate of zink, corrosive sublimate, red precipitate, aniline, logwood, Epsom salts, magnesia, cordial, cubebs, bichromate of potash, valerian (G. Baldrian), laurel berries, cochineal. [78] Rhymes plaguey, even in English localities. [79] As if from the plant _elder_, instead of Swiss halde, a _steep_ or _declivity_--the name being Swiss. [80] And Shellabarger, American Minister to Portugal, 1869. [81] The 'b' and 'v' of the two forms have changed place. [82] These names, with Rauch, Bucher, the Scotch Cochran, etc., are still pronounced correctly in English speaking localities in Pennsylvania; and at Harrisburg, 'Salade' rhymes _holid'y_.