At present we only produce some of those slips and trippings of the tongue and pen to which we are all liable in our unguarded moments […]

German text

SURCEASE owes its form and meaning to a remarkable folk-etymology, as has been pointed out by Prof. Skeat:—It is obvious, from the usual spelling, that this word is popularly supposed to be allied with cease, with which it has no etymological connexion.

But, though there is no perturbating motive force in the direction of the midcircle, there is nevertheleſs an accelerative one acting along it; […] .