Note 22 — Chapter III

Except when absolutely necessary for explanation, I shall not use, in writing native vocables, accents or diacritical marks: these serve only to puzzle the reader, without enabling him to reproduce the sound of foreign words. In the future dictionaries, however, the words must be distinguished by accents, not as in English, by spelling, e.g., “boy” and “buoy,” “thy” and “thigh,” and so forth. Amongst the kindred Egbas the native etymology of English words has run wild, e.g., “Tamahana” for Thompson, “Wiremu,” as in New Zealand, for Williams, and “Piripi” for Philip.