Exodus viii

30. 22. Pouls, The / is a renmant of the mistake of the grammarians pi the i6th century. Forgetting, or rather ignoring, that the / oipulsus had been already vocalised into u, they wrote poids, as they wrote chevaulx, livbre, etc. Cf. the Eng. debt, doubt, cusault, etc. In the word poids, which occurs a few lines further on, the ^ is a remuant of a somewhat worse mistake. Not aeein^ in j^ois {pniQirdw^oU^ the Latin pen-

suM (cf. mois, mensem, etc.)» they derived it from pondus, and added a ^, to show the trace of its origin.