Oviedo says that "they were a dainty dish to set before the king," Labat describes potatoes a hundred years ago, as cultivated in Western Africa, and says of them, "Il y en a en Irlande, et en Angleterre," and that he had seen very good ones at Rochelle.

CHAPTER X PRINCESS MUCKLUCK "We all went to Tibbals to see the Kinge, who used my mother and my aunt very gratiouslie; but we all saw a great chaunge betweene the fashion of the Court as it was now, and of y in ye Queene's, for we were all lowzy by sittinge in Sr Thomas Erskin's chamber."

For the reasons just given, the y of the word glory runs into the succeeding syllable, and most assuredly is not cut off, when we read of the excess Of Glory obscured: as when the sun, new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal misty air, but the y in misty stands as a full syllable because the word air is accented.

5.It is also a general principle, that nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, change the y into i, and add es for the plural, without increase of syllables: as, fly, flies; ally, allies; city, cities; colony, colonies.

y for the automobile, it has achieved so many remarkable speed records that its name is suggestive of swiftness.

"I syke when y singe for sorewe that y se When y with wypinge bihold upon the tre, Ant se

The native can't say any word beginning with s without putting a y before it, thusy-spice beef, y-street.

Cuando el organista bajó de la tribuna, la muchedumbre que se agolpo á la escalera fué tanta, y tanto su afán por verle y admirarle, que el asistente temiendo, no sin razón, que le ahogaran entre todos, mando á algunos de sus ministriles para que, vara en mano, le fueran abriendo camino hasta llegar al altar mayor, donde el prelado le esperaba.

Note the change of y to i. * * * *

How dare youstanding for the You of the worlddampen the splendid ardor of my hate?" Katie did not let pass her chance.

For purposes of versification y as a vowel may be treated as i.

The semivowels are, f, h, j, l, m, n, r, s, v, w, x, y, z, and c and g soft: but w or y at the end of a syllable, is a vowel; and the sound of c, f, g, h, j, s, or x, can be protracted only as an aspirate, or strong breath.

The introduction of the sound of y between the sounds of v and ur, is not uncommon in the vernacular or corrupted pronunciation of many words; nay, it is sanctioned by general usage, in "behaviour" from "behave," "Saviour" from "save," &c.

Y nunca me hablaba de dote. BRUNO.

Ver-r-y pr-r-etty it will look!" Cordelia Running Bird smiled prospectively, displaying small white teeth and two round dimples.

This doctrine, adopted from some of our older grammars, I was myself, at one period, inclined to countenance; (see Institutes of English Grammar, p. 33, at the bottom;) but further observation having led me to suspect, there is more authority for changing the y than for retaining it, I shall by-and-by exhibit some examples of this change, and leave the reader to take his choice of the two forms, or principles.

" I went back again towards the Boulevard, through the streets laid out, but not then built, which make a Y under my windows behind my house.

I suppose there's nothing sauce-y about yourself now, is there?"