Extract of a Letter Prom the Rev. E. Smedley, Editor of the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana."

Note on Page 90.

When I urged on one occasion an "understanding" I had had with the publishers of the "Encyclopædia," he answered, June 5, 1828, "I greatly dislike the word 'understanding,' which is always misunderstood, and which occasions more mischief than any other in our language, unless it be its cousin-german 'delicacy.'"