11 OCTOBER 1913, Page 16

APHAERESIS.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The interesting instance of aphaeresis in your columns a week or two ago (amore) might have finished with " e corde pleno : wth full heart"; returning to the final " o " of the first two lines. Here is an example of aphaeresis : Fireproof, ireproof, reproof, proof, roof, oof, of, f.—I am, Sir, &c., H. C. P.S.—Fool, in "gooseberry fool," &c., is connected in Murray's Dictionary, in the earliest instances quoted, with trifle. This in answer to a question in same issue of Epectator.