'Oh vot ish all[1] dis eartly pliss? 1 _ol_ in _folly_. Oh, vot ish[4] man's soocksess?[2] 2 sooccess. Oh, vot is various kinds[3] of dings? 3 _s_ turns _d_ into _t_. Und vot is[4] hoppiness? 4 _iss_ or _ish_, not both. Ve find a pank node in de shtreedt,[5] 5 shtreet. Next[-sht][6] dings[6] der pank ish[7] 6 dingss. preak! 7 _d_ requires _b_. Ve folls[1] und knocks our outsides[8] 8 G. _seit_, and final _s_, in, require _t_. Ven ve a ten-shtrike make.' CHICKIS, NEAR COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, _Feb. 16, 1870._ FOOTNOTES: [88] A boy in the street in Liverpool (1866) said to a companion--"'e told me to 'old up my 'ands an' I 'eld em up." He did not say _h_up, _h_an' _h_I, _h_em. [89]: Compare with a word in the following note sent to a druggist in Harrisburg, Pa. "Plihs leht meh haf Sohm koh kohs Peryhs ohr Sähmting darhts guht vohr Ah lihttel Dahg Gaht lausse vor meh." [_Louse_ for _loose_ is common in the north of England. Thus in Peacock's Lonsdale Glossary (published for the Philological Society, 1869) we find: "=Louse=, _adj._ (1) loose. O.N. _laus_, solutus. (2) Impure, disorderly.--_v.t._ to loose. "To _lowse_ 'em out on t' common" = To let cattle go upon the common.--=To be at a louse-end.= To be in an unsettled, dissipated state.--=Lous-ith'-heft=, _n._ a disorderly person, a spendthrift."--_A. J. Ellis._] [90] The _two_ shows that this is a plural. When recognised, it will be observed that the law of its formation is legitimate. [91] For the word 'twenty-five,' the speaking and singing machine of the German Faber said _tventy-fife_, in imitation of its fabricator, using _t_ and _f_ because they occur in the German word. Similarly, feif for _five_ appears in the following joke from an American German newspaper:-- "Ein Pennſylvaniſch-Deutſcher hatte zwei Pferde verloren und ſchickte folgende Annonce: Ei loſt mein tu Horſes! Der wonne iſt a Sarrelhors, langen Schwanzthäl, ſchort abgekuthet, aber weederum ausgrown; der annerwonn is bläcker, aber mit four weiht Fieht un en weiſzen Strich in his Fähs. Hu will bring mein tu Horſes bäck to mi, will rezief feif Thalers reward." [92] _Hald._ Analytic Orthography, § 294.