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Much that is in this book is from our dearly beloved brother, G. L. Pilkington; but only a very small part indeed is directly from his pen (some sentences of the I ntroduction, and Section I, Lessons I. XV.). The rest is either a reflection of ideas gathered from his translations; or verbal notes made during some very happy hours spent with him in the early months of 1893. Had that time been prolonged, these verbal notes would have been written out and worked into his grammar for his revision and correction with a view to a second edition. Besides the lessons above referred to, he left a most copious collection of words, but in such rough form that they could not be printed as they stood. These, it is hoped, are for the most part given in the Luganda English Vocabulary correctly; but brevity in most cases necessitates giving only the nearest English to the root-idea. Nothing but a carefully prepared dictionary could do more. Mr. Pilkington had long intended to write a Root dictionary, but never could find the time for it. This Vocabulary is therefore a first attempt to classify the words with a view to that end; and it is hoped that the arrangement will not prove too difficult. It is most important to catch the shades of thought of each word, and thus avoid mistakes. In only a very few cases indeed has a Luganda word an exact English equivalent. For the idea of the arrangement of this Vocabulary I am most gratefully indebted to The Zulu-K afir Language by Roberts. W. A. C. z3- The form adopted by the author of this book, of spelling the Luganda for water (madzi), a carpenter (omubadzi), the perfect tense of the verb to come (-dze), etc., is not that adopted by the Uganda Translation -C ommittee, and of the Church Missionary Society, or used in the -L uganda Bible, where the forms ma zi, omuba zi, -ze, etc., are used. JS imilarly the nasal before -f, v-, etc.
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