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Add. MS b/74/14/14
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Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright
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- 7 Dec. 1899 (Production)
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(Cambridge.)—Discusses the meaning of the phrase ‘cat in the pan’.
(Undated. Postmarked at Cambridge on 7 Dec. 1899.)
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My reasons for supposing that, in ‘cat in the pan’ {1}, the cat means a pussy, are: (1) that the word cate does not seem ever to have been spelt without a final e; & (2) that cate does not appear in the singular number earlier than the time of Shakespeare; in all older quotations it is cates in the plural.
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W W Skeat
[Direction:] W. Aldis Wright Esq. | Trinity College [At the foot:] Local.
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Postmarked at Cambridge on 7 December 1899.
{1} The phrase occurs in Bacon’s essay ‘Of Cunning’.
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