Chapter XVII

), Collings for Collins, Jennings, Fr. Jeannin, dim. of Jean, Aveling from the female name Avelina or Evelyn. Neill is for Neil, Nigel. We have epithetic -b in Plumb, the man who lived by the plum-tree and epithetic -p in Crump ( Chapter II ).

Assimilation is the tendency of a sound to imitate its neighbour. Thus the d of Hud (