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Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
In his preface to the Lay of Havelok the Dane (c. 1300), Walter Skeat cited several h -bombs, including holde for old, hevere for ever , and Henglishe for English .
Skeat has said--I defy either the one or the other, I say, to find any material difference between us.
Skeat does, indeed, in his last and longest note (I mean the one in the Cambridge Review ) go into the question as to how it came to pass that the a in Cambridge is pronounced long as in came --a point which I had not considered--and he also differs from me in attributing, without any apparent evidence, the change of the Gr of Granta into the C of Canta to the Anglo-French scribes of the twelfth century; for I was, and am still, disposed to attribute it, in part at least, to the undoubted confusion between the old forms of Cambridge and of Canterbury which I have pointed out in both my notes.
By the time he entered his sixties, in 1895, Skeat gave the impression that he was beginning to take these matters a little less seriously: