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I. Dr SKEAT read a note on the spelling of the English verb buy, of which the following is an abstract: I have already noted, on a former occasion, that in the case of the modern English verbs to bruise and to build, the spelling with ui goes back to the 13th century, and is due to the fact that French scribes employed that symbol to denote the sound of A.-S. long y, which resembled that of ii in the German griin. I now add the example of the verb to buy. Here the uy (variant of ui) represents the y of A.-S. bycgan, which was lengthened out in Early English. This lengthening arose from the use of
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