There are some words, such as "_Ease-rooms_" and "_Heaven-name_," that
seem to be Rutherford's own coining. But these are very few. On the
other hand, there is in these Letters what was a characteristic of the
style of the times, viz. the use of _synonymous words_, side by side.
Thus we have "niffer and exchange;" "feast and banquet;" "unco and
strange;" "I dow not, I cannot;" "pledge and pawn;" "wale and choose;"
and many more. So Knox speaks of "let and hindrance;" "gauge and
pledge." Zachary Boyd speaks of "reekie smoke;" "kindly and natural;"
"bag and baggage." In a Number of the "Athenæum," March 1873, no less
than twenty instances of this sort, in "Hamlet" alone, are given from
Shakespeare.