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Show HERE PHILOLOGY 18 BAFFLED. Impossible to Trace Clearly the Words "Tart" and "Pie." Usago alone must decide the Issue between "pie" and "tart," which has roturnod to us with the gooseberries, says tho London Chronicle. Phllol-ogy, Phllol-ogy, at any rate, draws no clear distinction. dis-tinction. It only traces back "tart" to tho Indian "tortus," twisted the pastry bolng the twisted part, of course, whllo It is very doubtful about "pio." On tho whole, Skent's conjecture conjec-ture that this expresses tho mlscol-Iancous mlscol-Iancous naturo of tho contents Is persuasive per-suasive All tho "pies" seom to go back to tho original one, tho magpie in Latin, "pica" from whoso black nnd whlto aspect comes "plod" and "plobnld." Tho old ordinnl or sorvlco book was called "pica" or "plo" bo-causo bo-causo of tho appearance of tho black lotter typo on a whlto pago, and tho cdlblp pie, having equnlly mixed contents, con-tents, mny havo been chrlstonod nftef ihls by medieval humor. Prlntors' langungo rotalns both "pica" for a kind of typo nnd "pi" for typo all jumbled up. |