_dooty_ instead of duty. (Novel Notes 52. 10.) _amatoor_ » » amateur. (Tea Table Talk 163. 9.) _dook_ » » duke. ( » » » 136. 18.) _menoo_ » » menu. ( » » » 126. 12.) _soot_ » » suit. (Tommy and Co. 38. 26.) _literatoor_ » » literature. (T. T. T. 158. 22.) Etc. An _r_, consisting of a scarcely perceptible vibration of the tip of the tongue (named _vanish-r_ by ELLIS), is often heard in words and combinations where it does not exist in ordinary pronunciation. In some cases, it seems to be used to avoid a hiatus, in others, it is evidently the effect of an exaggerated palatal pronunciation of the vowel. _droaring-room_: drawing-room (P. Kelver II. 65. 30.) _oughter ave_: ought to have (Sketches 195. 12.) _arter_: after (Novel Notes 205. 7.) _arf_: half ( » » 204. 4.) _arst_: asked ( » » 212. 6.) _follered_: followed ( » » 213. 5.) _carn’t_: can’t ( » » 204. 3.) A long vowel is often abbreviated: _weskit_ for ‘waistcoat’, _gal_, _gel_ for ‘girl’, _dunno_ for ‘don’t know’, _agin_ for ‘again’, etc.; while, on the other hand, a short vowel (esp. o) is sometimes lengthened: _dawg_ for ‘dog’, _gawd_ for ‘god’ (Novel Notes 212). (The same pron. of short _o_ exists in the Essex dialect.) In vulgar London speech, _w_ is sometimes heard instead of _v_. Jerome’s language offers, however, but one sample: _wiolets_ (T. T. T. 137. 5.) (The pronunciation of _w_ as _v_, Veller for Weller, etc. is said to be extinct in modern vulgar English.) The _g_ in words ending with _-ing_, esp. the _present participle_, is mostly _mute_ in vulgar pronunciation. _bloomin’_ (Novel Notes 203. 9). _mornin’_ ( » » 204. 20). _sendin’_ } (P. Kelver 65. 19). _thinkin’_ } _cracklin’_ ( » » II. 71. 4). _sellin’_ ( » » II. 58. 9). Etc. This pronunciation of the participle is, however, rather an _archaism_. _Sendin’_. etc., is the ancient, dialectic pronunciation, and is not exclusively characteristic of vulgar language. Our author tells us that it has been—and is perhaps at present—_the fashion_ among certain circles of the capital: «He suppressed a yawn, and replied, _‘Mornin’_ dropping the g. The custom was just coming into _fashion_; he was always correct». (Sketches 51. 9.) _Blasé Billy._ Other anomalisms are: _sich_ for such, _hisself_ for himself, _forarther_ for further (T. T. T. 247. 12), _allus_ for always, _mar_ for mother (P. Kelver II. 64. 30), _oss_ for horse (Sketches 195. 20). II. Accidence. Anomalisms in the Conjugation of the Verbs. The effect of analogy is obvious in the following examples.