In the foregoing example, the final _t_ of _went_ (where some might have expected 'wend'), _dit_ for 'did,' _hat_ for 'had,' _streat_, _wornt_ for 'warned,' _put_, _srout_ for 'throwed,' and _subscript_,--is for Latin -AT -US, English _-ed_, and as this is _t_ in German, it is retained by the language instinct, even when represented by 'd,' as in _gol-d_. Were there not something different from mere accident here, Grimm's Law would be a delusion. The _t_ of _out_, _disturb_, and the first one in _street_, is due to the surd _s_ beside it, or in the German _aus_ and _strasze_. In _the_, _de_; _then_, _den_; _wis_; _anneysing_, _nosing_; _srout_, the sonant _th_ becomes _d_ by glottōsis,[92] and the surd one _s_ by otōsis, or _t_ by glottosis also, and 'no_th_ing' is more likely to become no_ss_ing or no_tt_ing, than no_dd_ing--and English _z_ is not known to many German dialects. On the other hand, _z_ as the representative of sonant _th_, is legitimate in the broken English of a Frenchman. The _p_ of 'open' and the _g_ of 'against' are influenced by the German forms _öffnen_ and _gegen_. In "I dit nothin out annezmore"--_any_ is made plural, and 'did out' (for the previous 'put out') seems to be a reminiscence of the German _austhun_. § 2. _The Breitmann Ballads._ In these ballads Mr. Leland has opened a new and an interesting field in literature which he has worked with great success, for previous writers wanted the definite, accurate knowledge which appears in every page of Hans Breitmann, and which distinguishes a fiction like the Lady of the Lake from a figment like Hiawatha. Here we have an attempt to represent the speech of a large class of Europèan[93] Germans who have acquired English imperfectly, and who must not be confounded with the Pennsylvania German, altho the language of the two may have many points in common. Apart from their proper function, and under their present spelling, the Breitmann ballads have but little philologic value. Instead of being the representative of an average speech, they contain forms which can hardly occur, even when influenced by the perversity of intentional exaggeration, such as shbeed, shdare, shdory, ghosdt, exisdt, lefdt, quesdions, excepdion, and where the sonant _d_ occurs beside the surd _sh_, _f_, and _t_, in the lines:-- 'De dimes he cot oopsetted[1] 1 oopsettet. In shdeerin lefdt und righdt.[2] 2 G. rech_t_. Vas ofdener[3] as de cleamin shdars[4] 3 G. öf_t_er. 4 shtarrss. Dat shtud de shky[5] py[6] nighdt.' 5 sky. 6 _b_ei.