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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

CHAPTER IX
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Hence, whilst _convoy_ is borrowed from French, _convey_ is Anglo-French.

_Machine_ is French, because the _ch_ is pronounced as _sh_; but _chine_, the backbone, is Anglo-French.

_Rouge_ is French, because of the peculiar pronunciation of the final _ge_; but _rage_ is Anglo-French; and _jaundice_ is Anglo-French, as it has the old _j_.

See Chapters III-VI of my _Principles of English Etymology, Second Series_.
A good example of a dialect word is _gantry_ or _gauntree_, a wooden stand for barrels, known in varying forms in many dialects.

It is rightly derived, in the _E.D.D._, from _gantier_, which must have been an A.F.


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