henketsjer

Updated: May 9, 2025

Sewel, in the Introduction to his Dutch Dictionary, 1691, gives henketsjer, and Voltaire, forty years later, hankercher, as the received pronunciation. Sewel tells us also that the significant l was still sounded in would and should, as it still is by the peasantry in many parts of England. Mr.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859