4 FEBRUARY 1905, Page 26

The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by Dr. James A. H.

Murray. Vol. VII., " Pargeten-Pennached." (Clarendon Press. Treble Section, 7s. 6d.)—Out of four thousand seven hundred and twenty words (all reckoned), " two only have any claim to be considered native in Old English, PARSOCK and PATH." It must be remembered, however, that some immigrant words are of very early date—before even Anglo-Saxon times—still, they are not natives. Such are parsley (rerpotrAsvov) and pear (pirurn). Among the " origins " are the Turkish, Tamil, Algonkin (North American Indian), and Chinese tongues, contributing respectively pasha, pariah, pemmican, and pekoe. The verb "pass" occupies, we see, sixteen columns.