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Show The Ward Salter. ., Episcopal goiters cannot date from a ,yery remote antiquity. The very word Vgalters" is almost a newcomer to tbo language. Johnson's Dictionary docs not recognize its existence. It does not occur before 170O, nnd even in 1802 a military dictionary bad to deflno it as "a sort of spatterdashes." "Guctre," however, the French original, goes back at least to tho fifteenth century, nnd tho origin of that Is lost, though etymologists ety-mologists compare all sorts of words in all sorts of languages, including an old German word for a baby's christening cloth. Tho ono certainty Is that gutters has nothing to do with gait In splto of tho punning lino in tho "Itcjected Ad-dresses" Ad-dresses" "Lnx in their gaiters, laxet In their gait." London Spectator. |