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Excerpt from A Grammar of the Khassi Language The letter 9, however, calls for a remark. All the words containing this letter are foreign importations, from and through the Bengali and Hindustani, such as gadda, 'an ass gom, 'a white man godam, 'a store-room gormi, 'a kind of disease guli, a shot giida, a swelling gali, abusive language lagam, a bridle and a few others. 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.