Mr. Grindon justly remarks upon the tendency, in many instances, of the German _ss_ to reappear in English forms as _t_. Thus _heiss_ (hot), _fuss_ (foot), etc. These are Mr. Grindon's own examples, and a striking confirmation occurs in the old English _hight_, used for _he was called_, and again for the participle _called_, and again, in the 'Met. Romanus,' for _I was called_: 'Lorde, he saide, I highth Segramour.' Now, the German is _heissen_ (to be called). And this is a tendency hidden in many long ages: as, for instance, in Greek, every person must remember the transition of [Greek: tt] and [Greek: ss] as in [Greek: thatto], [Greek: thasso]. _On Pronunciation and Spelling._--If we are to surrender the old vernacular sound of the _e_ in certain situations to a ridiculous criticism of the _eye_, and in defiance of the protests rising up clamorously from every quarter of old English scholarship, let us at least know to _what_ we surrender. What letter is to usurp the vacant seat? What letter? retorts the purist--why, an _e_, to be sure. An _e_? And do you call _that_ an _e_? Do you pronounce 'ten' as if it were written 'tun', or 'men' as if written 'mun'? The 'Der' in Derby, supposing it tolerable at all to alter its present legitimate sound, ought, then, to be pronounced as the 'Der' in the Irish name Derry, not as 'Dur'; and the 'Ber' in Berkeley not as 'Bur,' but as the 'Ber' in Beryl. But the whole conceit has its origin in pure ignorance of English archaeology, and in the windiest of all vanities, viz., the attempt to harmonize the spelling and the pronunciation of languages.