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[Transcriber's Note:
This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the "real"
(Unicode/UTF-8) version of the file. Characters that could not be fully
displayed have been "unpacked" and shown in brackets:
[Gh] [gh] (yogh: very common)
[&] (Tironian ampersand)
êîôû (long vowels, printed with macron; "true" circumflex does
not occur)
Other diacritics (rare) as shown as [~e] (e-tilde) and similar.
Mid-word italics representing expanded abbreviations are shown in
{braces}. Whole-word italics are shown conventionally with _lines_.
Braces are also used with ^ (caret) for mid-word superscripting (rare);
superscripts that continue to the end of the word use ^ alone. Boldface
is shown with #marks#.
Text in [[double brackets]] was added by the transcriber. Except for
footnotes and the unpacked characters listed above, single brackets are
in the original.
The pointing-finger symbol is shown as -->. The combinations m~, n~
and d~ represent letters with a decorative curl.
In the editorial material, some text formatting has been simplified or
omitted to reduce visual clutter:
--Footnotes were italicized, with emphatic words in Roman (non-italic)
type; this has been "toggled" to plain type with italic emphasis.
--Glossary entries were shown in #boldface#, as were all references
to "#A# version" and "#B# version".
--In the Glossary, page-and-line references in the form "15.33" gave
the line number in smaller type.
The author's father was James Murray of the Oxford English Dictionary.]