Show HERE PHILOLOGY IS BAFFLED impossible to trace clearly the words tart and pie usage alone must decide the issue between pie and tart which has returned to us with the gooseberries sas the london agy ogy at any rate draws no clear dis lond it only traces back tar to the indian cortus tortus twisted the pastry being the twisted part ot course while it Is very doubtful about pie on the whole s condee tur that this expresses the lacious nature of the contents Is per all the pies seem to go back to the original one the magpie in latin pica from whose black and white aspect comes pled and diebald the old ordinal or service book was called pica pr pie be cause of the appearance of the black letter type on a white page and the edible pie having equally mixed con tents may have been christened atte this by medieval humor printers language retains both pica tor a kind of type and pi tor apo all jumbled up |