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ves, for I will give ye bothe _inough_." In _Lusty Juventus, a Morality_, temp. Edward VI., is the following: "Call them Papistes, hipocrites, and joyning of the plough; Face out the matter, and then good _ynough_." Here certainly the distinction disappears, as in the next and last example from _Candlemas Day_, "Ao. Do. 1512," where Joseph is speaking: "Take hym in your armys, Mary, I you pray, And of your swete mylke let him sowke _inowe_, Mawger Herowd and his grett fray: And as your spouse, Mary, I shall go with you." It would seem therefore, that this word has had its present pronunciation about three centuries. {604} Its derivation is directly from the Saxon _genoh_, but the root is found in many other languages, as the German, Dutch, Danish, &c. B. H. C. MR. WRIGHT supposes there has been a change in the pronunciation of this word, and inquires when it took place. Now, if my conjecture be correct, there may have been no change, and these are two words,--not one pronounced differently. Both the instances quoted by him are in conformity with my opinion, viz. that where the sense is "a sufficient _quantity_," either in substance, quality, or action, we should make use of _enough_; yet where a sufficient _number_ is intended, we should pronounce and write _enow_. I recollect (being a native of Suffolk) that I was laughed at by the boys of a school in a western county, nearly seventy years ago: but I was not then laughed out of my word, nor am I likely now to be argued out of it. P.S.--I see that Johnson's _Dictionary_ gives the same statement about _enough_ and _enow_. This answer is therefore superfluous. Johnson gives numerous instances of the use of _enow_ from our best authors. H. C. R. * * * * * PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. _Mr. Wilkinson's Mode of levelling Cameras._--As you have done me the honour to notice my simple invention for levelling cameras, which I have since had an opportunity of trying in the open air for a week, and find to succeed perfectly, I wish to correct some errors which appeared in the _Photographic Journal_, from which you copied my remarks, and which arose from the notes being taken down from my verbal observations. The first part is perfectly correct but after l. 9. col. 2. "N. & Q." (Vol. vii., p. 462.) it should read thus: "The other perpendicular is then sought for; the back or front of the camera being raised or l
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