J. W. THOMAS.

Dewsbury.

_Cash_ is from the French _caisse_, the moneychest where _specie_ was kept.

So _caissier_ became "cashier," and _specie_ "cash."

_Mob_, Swift tells us (_Polite Conversation_, Introd.), is a contraction

for _mobile_.

CLERICUS RUSTICUS has not, I fear, Johnson's _Dictionary_, where both these

derivations are given.

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