Note 61 — Vol. I.—8.
Reading edition
The word is not pronounced the same as gipsy, a fortune-teller; the g, in this case, being sounded hard as in gimlet.
[62] I am somewhat embarrassed by this difference between two valued correspondents, and I hope neither will regard me in an ill light, if I venture to interpose, and deprecate controversy beyond an extent which can interest the readers of the Table Book. I do not say that it has passed that limit, and hitherto all has been well; perhaps, however, it would be advisable that “A Reader” should confide to me his name, and that he and my “Old Correspondent,” whom I know, should allow me to introduce them to each other. I think the result would be mutually satisfactory.
W. H.
[63] Hist. of Birmingham.