citeyanis, Bellenden's regular word for
_citizens_. One regrets to see this absurd

mistake copied from Jamieson (unfortunately
without acknowledgment) by the
compilers of Cassell's _Encyclopdic Dictionary_.''

``Some editions of Drayton's _Barons
Wars_, Bk. VI., st. xxxvii., read--

`` `And ciffy Cynthus with a thousand birds,'

which nonsense is solemnly reproduced in
Campbell's _Specimens of the British Poets_,
iii. 16. It may save some readers a needless
reference to the dictionary to remember
that it is a misprint for cliffy, a favourite
word of Drayton's.''

2. In contrast to supposed words that
never did exist, are real words that exist
through a mistake, such as _apron_ and _adder_,
where the _n_, which really belongs to the
word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly,
to belong to the article; thus apron should
be napron (Fr. _naperon_), and adder should
be nadder (A.-S. _nddre_). An amusing
confusion has arisen in respect to the
Ridings of Yorkshire, of which there are
three. The word should be _triding_, but
the _t_ has got lost in the adjective, as West