Straw Hats Their History And Manufacture

Author : Harry Inwards
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ISBN 13 : 9781332315826
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Straw Hats written by Harry Inwards and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Straw Hats: Their History and Manufacture It will be noticed throughout this book that the author has deviated from the dictionary methods of spelling words illustrative of the action of plait. The Oxford Dictionary reads - "Plait (pleit, ploet, plit) . . . see also plat." "Plat. To form hats, etc., is now a less usual spelling than plait." "Plat-ting, the action of plat." Nuttall gives the pronunciation of plait as plate, and that of the action word plaited as plated. In the district where the manufacture is sufficiently ancient to have established a claim to its regular pronunciation, plait, as it is invariably spelt, has always been pronounced plat, and the action words plat-ter, plat-ted, and plat-ting. That this is not a local solecism of pronunciation is proved by the renderings given under the headings plat and platting in the Oxford Dictionary, and further, a literary and ancient example can be found in " Lover's Complaint," where Shakespeare speaks of "a plat-ted hive." The author thinks it is time some definite method, in proper accord with the custom of the industry, should be adopted, and he proposes a precedent, which he claims to be well founded and sensible, viz., to continue to use the word plait (pronounced plat) as the substantive, and to establish the spelling plait-ter, plait-ted and plait-ting as designations of the action words properly interpreting the universal pronunciation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.