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Eugene Aram
Complete

PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION
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And here sometimes very extraordinary execution has been done upon cream.

And though this custom has been disused in many places, and agreeably commuted for by ale, yet it survives still, and that about Whitby and Scarborough in the East, and round about Gisburn, etc., in Craven, in the West.

But perhaps a century or two more will put an end to it, and both the thing and name shall die.

Vicarious ale is now more approved, and the tankard almost everywhere politely preferred to the Churn.
This Churn (in our provincial pronunciation Kern) is the Hebrew Kern, or Keren, from its being circular, like most horns; and it is the Latin 'corona',--named so either from 'radii', resembling horns, as on some very ancient coins, or from its encircling the head: so a ring of people is called corona.

Also the Celtic Koren, Keren, or corn, which continues according to its old pronunciation in Cornwall, etc., and our modern word horn is no more than this; the ancient hard sound of k in corn being softened into the aspirate h, as has been done in numberless instances.
The Irish Celtae also called a round stone 'clogh crene', where the variation is merely dialectic.


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