the separation may be regarded as complete. Examples of
this are the following: 'di/vers', and 'dive/rse'; 'co/njure' and
'conju/re'; 'a/ntic' and 'anti/que'; 'hu/man' and 'huma/ne'; 'u/rban'
and 'urba/ne'; 'ge/ntle' and 'gente/el'; 'cu/stom' and 'costu/me';
'e/ssay' and 'assa/y'; 'pro/perty' and 'propri/ety'. Or again, a word is
pronounced with a full sound of its syllables, or somewhat more shortly:
thus 'spirit' and 'sprite'; 'blossom' and 'bloom'{104}; 'personality'
and 'personalty'; 'fantasy' and 'fancy'; 'triumph' and 'trump' (the
_winning_ card{105}); 'happily' and 'haply'; 'waggon' and 'wain';
'ordinance' and 'ordnance'; 'shallop' and 'sloop'; 'brabble' and
'brawl'{106}; 'syrup' and 'shrub'; 'balsam' and 'balm'; 'eremite' and
'hermit'; 'nighest' and 'next'; 'poesy' and 'posy'; 'fragile' and
'frail'; 'achievement' and 'hatchment'; 'manoeuvre' and 'manure';--or
with the dropping of the first syllable: 'history' and 'story';
'etiquette' and 'ticket'; 'escheat' and 'cheat'; 'estate' and 'state';
and, older probably than any of these, 'other' and 'or';--or with a
dropping of the last syllable, as 'Britany' and 'Britain'; 'crony' and
'crone';--or without losing a syllable, with more or less stress laid on
the close: 'regiment' and 'regimen'; 'corpse' and 'corps'; 'bite' and
'bit'; 'sire' and 'sir'; 'land' or 'laund' and 'lawn'; 'suite' and
'suit'; 'swinge' and 'swing'; 'gulph' and 'gulp'; 'launch' and 'lance';
'wealth' and 'weal'; 'stripe' and 'strip'; 'borne' and 'born'; 'clothes'
and 'cloths';--or a slight internal vowel change finds place, as between
'dent' and 'dint'; 'rant' and 'rent' (a ranting actor tears or _rends_ a
passion to tatters){107}; 'creak' and 'croak'; 'float' and 'fleet';
'sleek' and 'slick'; 'sheen' and 'shine'; 'shriek' and 'shrike'; 'pick'
and 'peck'; 'peak', 'pique', and 'pike'; 'weald' and 'wold'; 'drip' and
'drop'; 'wreathe' and 'writhe'; 'spear' and 'spire' ("the least _spire_
of grass", South); 'trist' and 'trust'; 'band', 'bend' and 'bond';
'cope', 'cape' and 'cap'; 'tip' and 'top'; 'slent' (now obsolete) and
'slant'; 'sweep' and 'swoop'; 'wrest' and 'wrist'; 'gad' (now surviving
only in gadfly) and 'goad'; 'complement' and 'compliment'; 'fitch' and
'vetch'; 'spike' and 'spoke'; 'tamper' and 'temper'; 'ragged' and
'rugged'; 'gargle' and 'gurgle'; 'snake' and 'sneak' (both crawl);
'deal' and 'dole'; 'giggle' and 'gaggle' (this last is now commonly
spelt 'cackle'); 'sip', 'sop', 'soup' and 'su