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Updated: May 15, 2025
Any one who is aware how many of what are called 'vulgarisms' in pronunciation are in fact 'archaisms, will naturally think that the ancient pronunciation of 'spoil, like the modern vulgar one, was 'spile. But if he goes to one old black letter say that printed by John Windet for the assignees of Richard Day in 1593 he will find in the fourth line 'defoile; and if he goes to another edition he may find 'defoyle; and he will learn that in speculating on such matters, he must be on his guard against modernisers, and go to originals.
The "modernisers" respected the psalter, the curtailment was in the Lectionary. The modernising spirit showed itself in the arrangement and bulk of the office books. Even then, a very large volume was the result. After a time the chant, which absorbed much space, was removed from the volume, but the resulting volume, noticeably smaller, was not yet small enough.
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