Vulgar words in A Grammar of the English Tongue (Page 1)
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It sometimes begins middle or final syllables in words compounded, as blockhead ; or derived from the Latin, as comprehend .
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N is sometimes mute after m , as damn , condemn , hymn .
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Wh has a sound accounted peculiar to the English, which the Saxons better expressed by hw , as, what , whence , whiting ; in whore only, and sometimes in wholesome , wh is sounded like a simple h .
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But as if from the consonants ns taken from nasus , and transposed that they may the better correspond, sn denote nasus ; and thence are derived many words that relate to the nose, as snout , sneeze , snore , snort , snear , snicker , snot , snivel , snite , snuff , snuffle , snaffle , snarl , snudge .