ÆLFRIC’S COLLOQUY

In the Anglo-Saxon *Gloss*, to Ælfric’s Latin dialogue, *higdifatu* is not, I conceive, an error of the scribe, but a variation of dialect, and therefore, standing in no need of correction into *hydigfatu* (“NOTES and QUERIES,” No. 13.). Hig, hi and hy, are perfectly identical, and nothing is more usual in A.S. than the omission of the final g after i; consequently, *hig=hy*, *di=dig*, therefore *higdi=hydig*. Mr. Singer’s reading of *cassidilia for culidilia*, I consider to be well-founded. His conjecture, that *sprote*=Goth. *sprauto*, has something very specious about it, and yet I must rej…