boldly az gues and guilt. So redundance alreddy recalls, in order to' explode, guess and give! Widh dhis not onely seeing (for seing) and dhe like; but dhe falsifying final ov are, were; awe, owe; some, come; above, dove, love, glove; throve, drove, shrove, shove, hove; for ar, wer; aw, ow; som, com; abov, dov, lov, glov; throv, drov, shrov, shov, hov: hwere o for u guivs to' the ear, sum distinctive, widh cum, abuv, and dhe rest.

Superfluous, dhence obstructive, (distractive indeed!) dhe i ov either, neither; heifer and friend; dhe o ov people and yeoman; leopard and jeopard; dhe u ov eulogy, az ov eulogium; ov conduit, vertually cundit: a, obviously useles, after an oddherwize open vowel, in season, reason, treason, treacle, creature; in eave, heave, weave, leave, cleave, reave, greave; cease, lease, crease, grease; teaze, ease, please; like dhe e final to' sieve, grieve, relieve, receive; dhe second e in sleeve, geese, fleece, freeze, breeze, squeeze, cheese: for edher, nedher; heffer, frend; pepel and yeman, leppard, and jeppard; ellogy, az elogium; widh condit: so sezon, rezon, trezon, trekel, creture; eve, heve, weve, leve, cleve, reve, greve; cese, lese, crese, grese; teze, eze, pleze: siev, griev, reliev, receiv; sleve, guese, flece, freze, breze, squeze, cheze. But, like dhe i ov heifer and friend, dhe o ov leopard and jeopard; dhe u ov eulogy; iz dhe a ov leap-year and ov neap-tide; for lep-year and nep-tide; nay, shamefoolly, like dhe superfluity in all dheze, haz dhe a hiddherto' remained in health, wealth, and stealth; becauz it stil iz nescessary in heal, weal, and steal! and doutles, for som simmilarly cogent rezon, doz kind a continnue to' gard dhe same shut vowel! in realm, earl, pearl; earn, learn; early, earnest; earth, dearth, hearth, heard, hearse, rehearse, searce, search, threat, deaf, dead, head, bread, tread, dread, thread, stead, lead, read; ready, steady, heady, meadow; zealous, jealous, weapon, leaven, heaven, endeavour; pleasure, measure, treasure, leasure or leisure! for helth, welth, stelth; relm, erl, perl; ern, lern; erly, ernest; erth, derth, herth, herd, herse, reherse, serce, serch; thret, def, ded, hed, bred, tred, dred, thred, sted, led, red; reddy, steddy, heddy, meddow; zellous, jellous; weppon, levven, hevven, endevvor, plezzure, mezzure, trezzure, lezzure.

How (alas!) wil Brittish Libberty moarn her novvel chains, hwen she must not onely speak az she thinks, but write as she speaks; hwen rove, lov, and moov, can chime no more togueddher; hwen lead and led, read and red, live and liv, tear and tair, ar found oppozite, az East and West; nay, az open and shut vowels!

7. OV IMPRACTICABEL ARTICULACION.

No les embarrassing iz dhe redundance ov impracticabel articulacion, iniscial, medial, or final, (in dhe beguinning, middel, or end, ov words:) dhe first indeed chiefly in forrain names, titels, or terms, hware a consonant, uncombinabel (mediately or immediately) widh a vowel, remains a ded rellic: az dhe c ov czar (dho contracted from Cezar), dhe p ov Ptollemy (mere Tollemy), or ptisic (for tizzic), dhe b ov bdellium, herd onely dellium; and even dhe p ov psalm, herd but sahm, dho dhe l be stil audibel in psalmist and psalmody, all effective beside dhe labial (p).

8. OV FALSE ASPIRACION.

But no exampel can warrant dhe aspiring ideller, dhat pretends to' lead heir, heritage, heritable, heritor; herb, herbage, herbalist; honour, honorary, honourable; and even dhe humble humour ov dhe passing hour; insted ov eir, erritage, erritabel, erritor; erb, erbage, erbalist; onnor, onnorary, onnorabel; widh dhe umbel umor ov dhe prezzent our; hwich doutles can alone be called our our. Yet aspiracion cannot be denied to' inherrit, inherritance, inherritor, heredditary.

9. DHE GUTTURAL ASPIRATE LOST, OR TRANSMUTED BY MODDERN ORGANS.

Dhe consonants dhat subjoin aspiracion (h), ar dhe labial, dental, lingual, and guttural; or dhe articculants from dhe lips, teeth, tung, and throat: p, t, s, and k; by dhe Lattins turned into c: az in Philadelphus and Philadelphia, Thales and Thalia, Sharon and Sheba, Charon and Chilo, hoom dhe Inglish, havving smoodhed away dhe aspiracion, ar fain to' call Caron and Kilo.

Aincient organs, howevver, dubbelled occazionally dhe guttural, az wel az dhe labial aspirate; dooing equal justice to' Bacchus and to' Sappho: moddern also, (peculiarly the Inglish,) dhe oddher two'; dhe simpel always sufficing to' dubbel dhe aspirate. New dialects softening, lost dhe guttural aspirate; til dhe Spannish probbably recovvered it from dhe Morish. The Itallian and Spannish, and from dhem dhe Inglish, endevvored to' make up dhe los, by prefixing dhe simpel dental to' dhe lingual or sibbilant aspirate, hwich dhe Gallic ear preferred widhout dhe dental; preferring dherfor dhe vertual sh and zh to' tsh and dzh. Inglish organs loozing, like French, dhe guttural aspirate, edher dropt dhe aspiracion, az in carracter and kemmist or kymmist; from character and chemist or chymist; or turned dhe hoal ruf guttural into' dhe smoodh labial aspirate. So softening cough, hough, trough, through, though; rough, tough, slough, chough, widh dhe proppers Hough, Brough, and Loughborough; into' cof, hof, trof; throo or thro', and dho: ruf, tuf, sluf, chuf; Huf, Bruf, and Lufburrough or Lufburrow. But Gough perhaps Orrigin recalled into' Goffe or Gof; hwile Lough became Inglishly Luf, and dhe guttural