Excerpt from The Phonological Investigation of Old English: Illustrated by a Series of Fifty Problems HE study of Old English Phonology, to be truly valuable, must be comparative. Only thus does it become a study of relations, that is, of law. Only thus does the language take its place in a great system, out lined by the founders of Comparative Philology, and elaborated by the patience of their successors. And in no other way can the foundations of English etymology be solidly laid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.