A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from Notes and Queries (Classic Reprint) by Prof Walter W Skeat (Paperback / softback, 2016)
Excerpt from A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted From Notes and Queries Now that my attention has been definitely given to the study of English for more than thirty years (to say the least), it is high time for me to consider the question of venturing to reprint some of my scattered utterances on the subject. A good friend of mine once asked me - 'how came you to think of studying English?' The fact that such a question was possible suggests that to do so is an uncommon course; and this is certainly the case, extra ordinary as the assertion may seem to the foreigner. Under the circumstances, perhaps a few personal details are allowable. 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 techlogy 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.