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Nothing reveals the sculptural opulence of Italy like this apparent wastefulness. It seems to proclaim that Italy can afford to make nothing of what would elsewhere be judged worthy of shrines. We say to ourselves, "If such be the things she throws away, what must be her jewels?" A similar feeling rises in me while exploring Shakespeare's prodigality in apa? ?e??µe?a.
The old grammarians tell us that a certain part of speech was called supine, because it was very seldom needed, and therefore almost always lying on its back i.e. in Latin, supinus. The supines of Shakespeare outnumber the employés of most authors. The array of Shakespearian apa? ?e??µe?a appears still vaster if we compare it with expressions of the same nature in the Scriptures and in Homer.
Now, of the apa? ?e??µe?a with initial a, I call 262 words out of 364 classical, and with initial m, 152 out of 310; that is, 414 out of 674, or about four-sevenths of the whole Shakespearian host beginning with those two letters. In doubtful cases I have considered those words only as classical the first etymology of which in Webster is from a classical or Romance root.
The result is that the apa? ?e??µe?a with initial a are 364, and those with initial m are 310. There is no reason, that I know of, to suppose the census with these initials to be proportionally larger than that with other letters. If it is not, then the words occurring only once in all Shakespeare cannot be less than five thousand, and they are probably a still greater legion.
No subject connected with what is called philosophy is more mortifying to proud human reason than the investigation of languages, for in what do the researches of the most unwearied philologist terminate but a chaos of doubt and perplexity, else why such exclamations as these? Why is the Wallachian word for water Sanscrit? for what is the difference between apa and ap?
In Chontales many end in "apa," or "apo," as Cuapo, Comoapa, Comelapa, Acoyapo, and others. The Spaniards, whenever they gave a name to a town, either named it after some city in Spain or after their Saints. There are dozens of Santa Rosas, San Juans, and San Tomases.
Then he stood peering through the crack till the footsteps died away. "Can't see much," he said; "but I wonder what apa boleh booat means. I meant it for something nasty, but the ugly beggar took it quite pleasant. It's what those sampan chaps say when they come back without catching any fish.
In short, Shakespeare could not be conscious of all the words he had once used, more than Brigham Young could recognize all the wives he had once wedded. In the absence of other theories concerning the reasons for Shakespeare's apa? ?e??µe?a being so abundant, I throw out a suggestion of my own till a better one shall supplant it.
An elderly man who has no children receives the title LINGO, and a woman, the title APA prefixed to his or her former name. A widow is called BALU. The names of father and mother are never assumed by the children, and their deaths do not occasion any change of name, except the adoption of the title OYAU on the loss of the father, and ILUN on the loss of the mother.
The Homeric apa? ?e??µe?a with initial m are 78, but were they as numerous in proportion to Homer's whole world of words as Shakespeare's are, they would run up to 186; that is, to more than twice as many as their actual number.
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