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Show Women is pronounced avimen for it is yet retained in the northern dialets, and in the ruftick pronunciation as maun for man, baund for band The fhort @ approaches to th open The fhort o has fometimes the found of a clofe u, as for, ¢ome as gra/s The long a, if prolonged by ¢ at the end of the word, is al ways flender, as graze, fame 4 forms a diphthong only with 7 or y, and z or w O coalefces into a diphthong with a, as mean, groan, approach o has the found of ¢ long 4 or ay as in plain, aain, gay, clay, has only the found of the long an flender 4, and differs not in the pronunciation from plaze, wane not an Englifh diphthong, they are better written as they are founded, with onlye ewmmj Au or aw has the found of the German a, as raw, naughty With 7, as oil, foil, moil, noifome Az is fometimes found in Latin words not completely naturalifed or aflimilated, but is no Englifh diphthong; and is more properly exprefled by fingle ¢ as Cefar, Encas This coalition of letters feems to unite the founds of the two letters a5 far ag _two founds can be united without being deftroyed, and therefore approaches mor nearly than any combination in our tongue to the notion of a diphthong E With o, as boot, hoot, cooler3 oo has the found of the Italian E is the letter which oecurs moft frequently in the Englifh language With # or a, as our, power, flower; but in fome words ha only the found of o long, as in foul, bow!, fow, grow. Thefe dif E is long, as in fzne 5 or fhort, asin cillar, [éparate, célebrate men 1hin ferent found It i» always fhort before a double confonant, or two confonants, as in wix, pirplexity, rélent, médlar, riptile, [érpént, céllar body ; bow!/, a wooden veflel Ouz is fometimes pronounced like o foft, as court; fometime like o fhort, as cough ; fometimes like « clofe, as could ; or 4 open E is always mute at the end of a word, except in monofylla bles that have no other vowel, as #b¢ ; or proper names as Pe Derbe 5 being ufed to modify the foregoing con as rough, tough ; which ufe only can teach {onant, as face, once, hedges oblige5 or to lengthen the precedin vowel as ban, bane can,cane cur robe 5 pip, pipe; [firy fire tin, tune pin, pine cure rib Ox is frequently ufed in the laf fyllable of words which in Latin endin or, an tibe tub are made Englith, as bonour, labour, favour, from bonar, labor, fawor Some late innovators have ejected the #, without confidering that the laft fyllable gives the found neither of or nor #r, but a found between them, if notcom Almoft all words which now terminate in confonants ended anciently ine, a year, yeare; awildnefs, wildneffe; which e probably had the force of the French pounded of both ; befides that they are probably derived to us from the Frenc feminine, and conflituted a fyllable with its affociate confonant; for, in old ediThis tions, words are fometimes divided thus, clea-re, fel-le, knowled-ge was perhaps for a time vocal or filent in poetry, as convenience required Camden in his Remains calls it the filent ¢ has been long wholly mute nouns in exr, as bonneyr favenr but i U U is long in #/e, confifion 3 or fhort, as us, conciffjon It coalefces with z, ¢, 7, 03 but has rather in thefe combin clean.sh data import.tsv out README It does not always lengthen the foregoing vowel, as gliwe, /ive give tions the force of the a, as quaff, queft, quit, guite, languifp It has fometimes in the end of words a found obfcure, an {earcely perceptible, as gpen, jfhapen, foorten, thiftle, participle Jucre fometimes in % the 7 lofes its {found, as in juice £ forms a diphthong with a, as near5 with 7, as deign, receive and with # or w, as rew, flew Ea {ounds like e long, as mean3 or like ee, as dear, clear, near . £i is founded like ¢ long, as feize, perceiving Eu founds as z long and foft in beauty and its derivatives, but hav U is followed by e in wirtue but the e has no found Uk is fometimeés mute at the end of a word, in imitation of the French, aspr rogue, [ynagogue, plague, wague, baranguc V Y is a vowel, which, as Quintilian obferves of one of the Roman letters, we might want without inconvenience, but that w have it. It fupplies the place of 7 at the end of words, as #y before an 7, as dying; and is commonly retained in derivativ words where it was part of a diphthong in the primitive ; as 4 £ may be faid to form a diphthong by reduplication, as agree, JSiray, deftroyer s betray Sleeping Jayers day, days Fois found in yeomen It is fometime mute before 2, ¢, 7, y, as guard, guef?, guife, buy "This faintnefs of found is found when e feparates a mute from a liquid, as i wotten y or follows 2 mute and liquid, as in cartle - E, a, u ave combine only the found of z are ufed to diftinguifh different fignifications; g bow, an inftrument for fhooting; oww,a depreflion of the head Jfow, the the of a boar ; Jow, to {catter feed i dow/, an orbicula tf"j&t{'a/z, bleffing, fell, felling, débe nelope, Phebe o7 GRAMMA where it is founded as ¢ thort and in pesple, where i is.pronounced like ez betrayed, betrayer5 pray, prayer; / L ¥ being the Saxon vowel y, which was commonly ufe occurs very frequently in all old books where i is now put I GExERA 1 has a found, long, as fine ; and fhort, as fiz That is eminently obfervable in 7, which may be likewife remarked in othe letters, that the fhort found Is not the long found contralted, but a found wholl different The long found in monofyllables is always marked by the { is often founded before » as a thort u 3 as flirt, firf?, fbirs It forms a diphthong only with e, as field, fbield, which i as the doubl A vowel in the beginning or middle fyllable, before two con {onants, is commonly thort, as opportunisy In monofyllables a fingle vowel before a fingle confonant 1 fhort, as fag, frig Many is pronounced as if it were wrote manny final, as thix, thine founde Jrind RULES e ; except friend whic is founde a T is joined with es in Jisu, and enw. in wicaw 5 which trighthongs are founded a the open # O 1s long, as bone, ibedient, corriding3 or thort, asblick, knick #blique, Vi O CONSONANTS B B has one unvaried found, fuch as it obtains in other la ‘guages It is mute in debt, debtor, fubtle, doubt, lamb, limb, dumb thumb, climb, comb; womb It is ufed before / and r, as black, brown o |