ABSTRACT

Juan 2.43) has children: beu>ildel"illg. Shelley (Arethusa) has pursu;ng: ·ruitl .. Tennyson (Lord Burleigh) has treading: wed itl.

13.14. A few cases must be specially mentioned. Pudding has ·tug in Piers Ploughm8n; both p and ·il1g may be due to an assimilation of F boudin to Irish putog! In Swift'", Polite Contlersation it is repeatedly (109, 110, 142, 145) spelt pudden. .llaudlin is the popular form of Magdalene (3.92); but in attributive use (Maudlin looks = 'tearful, weeping, sentimental') it was apprehended as a participle, and through subtraction of -in a new verb to maudle [ma'dl] has been formed. Tarpaulin is originally a compound of tar and the verbal noun of pall, but is now invariably spelt ·in.-1n midllen, ME tJlllddllng, the spelling with ·n is found sometimes as early as the 16th c.