Excerpt from French Terminologies in the Making: Studies in Conscious Contributions to the Vocabulary This dissertation, especially in the last three chapters departs somewhat, I am aware, from the type of those so far presented in this series. I trust that that is not, however, a cause for condemnation. I take this opportunity to acknowledge indebtedness for inspiration to the works of Nyrop, Darmesteter, and Dauzat as duly listed in the bibliography, and I offer this study as a tribute to those eminent masters, without, however, attempting thereby to place any responsibility for its faults upon them, but with the sole intention of doing them honor as far as its humble merits may. I have also been much assisted in the later chapters by T. Ranft's Der Einfluss der franzosischen Revolution auf den wortschatz der franzosischen sprache, which I have found a most valuable compilation of facts serving as a point of departure for many of the deductions which I have drawn. I owe to Professor H. A. Todd of Columbia University a much greater debt than I have opportunity here to do more than suggest, for his sympathetic and encouraging cooperation throughout the whole period of preparation of this work, from the very earliest moment of its inception through the final stages of the printing. Needless to say that without his constant help it would not have attained completion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."