"_One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church._"--Can any of your
correspondents inform me how, or why, the word "holy" is omitted in the
above article of the Nicene (Constantinopolitan) Creed, in all our
Prayer-books? It is not omitted in the original Greek and Latin.

J.M.W.


_The Norfolk Dialect._--Mr. Dickens' attempt to give interest to his new
novel by introducing this dialect would have been even more successful
had he been more familiar with the curious peculiarities of that
east-coast language. Many of the words are, I believe, quite peculiar to
Norfolk and Suffolk, such as, for instance, the following:

_Mawther_, a girl, a wench.
_Gotsch_, a stone jug.
_Holl_, a dry ditch.
_Anan? An?_ an interrogation used when the
speaker does not understand a question put to him.
_To be muddled_, to be distressed in mind.
_Together_, an expletive used thus: where are
you going _together?_ (meaning several persons)--what
are you doing _together?_

Perhaps some reader can explain the origin of these words.

Icenus.


_Sir John Perrot._--Sir John Perrot, governor of Ireland in the reign of