Humble Pie

The proverbial expression of "eating humble pie," explained by A. G., will be found also explained in the same manner in the Appendix to Forby's *Vocabulary*, where it is suggested that the correct orthography would be "umble pie," without the aspirate. Bailey, in his valuable old *Dictionary*, traces the word properly to umbilicus, the region of the intestines, and acknowledges in his time the perquisite of the game-keeper.