n-ew-berry

Updated: April 30, 2025

Mr Newberry, to represent his Name by a Picture, hung up at his Door the Sign of a Yew-Tree, that had several Berries upon it, and in the midst of them a great golden N hung upon a Bough of the Tree, which by the Help of a little false Spelling made up the Word N-ew-berry.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays