The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.

Regarded in this light, the idea of Polarity . . . has nothing to do with the fancy of Terrestrial Magnets, with Hypotheses concerning impalpable and incognoscible Fluids, with Atoms having Poles, or with doctrines concerning Ethereal vibrations.

In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy; 'lanes' rhymes with 'sardines', 'bucket' with 'like it', 'toad-like' with 'hard luck' and 'blarney' with 'money' […]

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