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diff --git a/15901.txt b/15901.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eaaa5f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/15901.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1272 @@ +Project Gutenberg's A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy, by James Elphinston + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy + +Author: James Elphinston + +Release Date: May 25, 2005 [EBook #15901] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +A +MINNIATURE +OV +_INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY_. + + * * * * * + + +TO' +DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES, +DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES +_OV WALES_; +DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES +_OV YORK_: +ONNORED AZ UNDOUTED +PATRONS AND PATTERNS +OV EVVERY PROPRIETY: +DHIS MINNIATURE + +Ov Inglish Orthoggraphy, + +_UMBLY HOPES UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE;_ +FROM DHE BENIGN PERMISSION +OV BEING SO INSCRIBED, +BY DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES +DEVOTED SERVANT, +_James Elphinston_. + + * * * * * + +A +MINNIATURE +OV + +Inglish Orthoggraphy: + +DEDDICATED TO' +_DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES OF WALES_, +DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES OV YORK: + + * * * * * + +BY JAMES ELPHINSTON. + + * * * * * + +_LONDON_: + +SOLD (Price 1 Shilling and 6 Pence) BY +W. RITCHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHAINGE; T. BOOSEY, N. 4, +BRAUD-STREET, DHARE; F. AND C. RIVVINGTON, +N. 62; ST. PAULS CHURCHYARD; J. DEIGHTON, +N. 325, HOLBORN; W. CLARK, +N. 38, BOND-STREET. + + * * * * * + +1795. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS. + + 1. _Introduccion_ + 2. _Orthoggraphy ascertained in dhe vowels, and dheir serviles_ + 3. _Vocal substitucion, licenced and licencious_ + 4. _Ov open and shut vowels_ + 5. _Ov dhe aspirates and dheir insertives_ + 6. _Ov redundant serviles_ + 7. _Ov impracticabel articulacion_ + 8. _Ov false aspiracion_ + 9. _Dhe guttural aspirate lost, or transmuted by moddern organs_ + 10. _Old _R_ aspirate_ + 11. _Oddher antiquated idellers_ + 12. _Final fantoms, or dubblers ov final forms_ + 13. _Oddher falsifiers, medial or final; licquids or sibbilants; + particcularly _TI_ for a sibbilacion_ + 14. _Dhe orthoggraphy ov propper names_ + 15. _Dhe fundamental principel ov orthoggraphy_ + 16. _The orthographic riddle_ + + * * * * * + +A +MINNIATURE +OV +_INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY._ + +1. INTRODUCTION. + +Hwen evvery oddher language, and at last our own, haz been reduced to' +science; rendered accountabel to' natives, and accessibel to' straingers; +hwence iz it, dhat our practice, growing daily more a contrast dhan an +exemplificacion ov our theory, tempts ignorance to' speak, az blind habbit +spels; raddher dhan to' dream ov spelling, az propriety exhibbits her +unremitted harmony, hweddher in word or writing? For propriety, hwarevver +herd, can be seen onely in her picture: nor can dhis be duly drawn, but +from dhe oridginal; or dhe likenes long prezerved, in dhe coppies ov +vulgarrity. + +Scarce creddibel doz it seem, to' dhe anallogists ov oddher diccions, dhat +hiddherto', in Inglish exhibiscion, evvery vowel and evvery consonant ar +almoast az often falsifiers az immages ov dhe truith. Hetteroggraphy +indeed, or false litterary picture, can arize onely from won, or a +combinacion, ov foar cauzes: redundance, defiscience; mischoice, or +misarraingement. + + * * * * * + +2. ORTHOGGRAPHY ASCERTAINED IN DHE VOWELS, AND DHEIR SERVILES. + +It iz not now new, dhat evvery Inglish vowel haz, not onely a longuer and +shorter, but even a different sound, az open or shut by a consonant; dho _A +braud_, open and shut, differ but in quantity. Nor iz it yet a secret, dhat +certain mutes, or silent letters, (espescially vocal quiescents,) ar named +_serviles_; rendering essencial az vizzibel service, boath to' vowels and +consonants. Hware such gards ar wanted, dhey doutles wil attend; and, hwen +dhey proov superfluous, az reddily widhdraw. Dhus dhe open vowel ov dhe +simpel shuts, and dhe serviles vannish, in dhe penultimate ov dhe compound: +_shake_, _Shakspear_; _chear_, _cherfool_; _vine_, _vinyard_, and dhe like. +So formatives: _stare_ and _stair_, _starling_; _steer_, _sterling_; +_shere_, _sherrif_; _child_, _children_; _kind_, _kindred_; _know_, +_knollege_; and dhe rest. + +Evvery open ear must allow dhe aspiracion (_h_) to' articculate iniscially +dhe braud vocal licquid (_w_); nor longuer imadgine dhat _wh_, apparent, +can becom _hw_ real; or dhat _what_, _whale_, _wheels_, can rascionally +paint dhe power ov _hwat_, _hwale_, _hweels_. Dhe braud licquid (_w_) haz +no place in _hoal_, total; or in _hore_, prostitute; distinct alike, to' +dhe eye, from _hole_ and _hoar_. But _wh_, iniscial, may wel prommise _hw_; +if _le_ and _re_, boath final, may picture _el_ and _er_: az we admire, not +onely on dhe _little theatre_, but in dhe _centre_ ov dhe _battle_! Dho a +tutch ov Rezons wand wil restore dhe buty ov truith; at wonce to' dhe +_littel theater_, and to' dhe _center_ ov dhe _battel_; az such buty beamed +in dhe former century. + +Dhe French _table_, _chambre_, _ancien_, _danger_, ar dhe unexcepcionabel +parents ov dhe Inglilh _tabel_, _chaimber_, _aincient_, _dainger_; hoo ar +too apt scollars, not to' lern from parental exampel, to' show dhemselvs +hwat dhey ar; widhout wondering, dhat won tung iz not anoddher, or dhat +each must hav her own essence and semblance; and dhat in ours, az in oddher +picturage, _an open vowel must not appear a shut won_. Indispensabel dhen +az dhe servile (_i_) in dhe three last exampels, iz it in _aingel_, dho +inadmissibel in _angellic_; in evvery _ainge_ and _ainger_, like _rainge_ +and _rainger_; az wel az in _caimbric_ and _Caimbridge_; dho nedher in +_Cam_ nor _Cambray_. + +If _a_ slender, open, must hav in such case its gardian; _a_ slender, even +shut, hwen protracted, requires its protracting aspiracion (_h_): az in +_ah! Mahlah_; so in _Pahtric_, _fahdher_, _pappah_, _mammah_, and _ahnt_; +so distinct (dho safe enuf ungarded) from _ant_ dhe emmet. But _gahp_, +herd, iz dhus no longuer seen _gape_. _Hant_, _hanch_, and dheir fellows, +admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' _wrauth, wauter_, and +_vauz_; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo _chant_ and +_branch_. + +_O_ must hav its own medial servant, to' ascertain its opennes; in _poark_, +_poart_, _spoart_, _foart_, _foard_, _goard_, _soard_, (wonce _sword_), +_foarth_, _foarce_, _foarge_; _boast_, _coast_, _goast_, _moast_, _poast_, +and _boath_; justly az in dhe annimal _boar_, in _board_, _boast_, and +dheir fellows; dho _slow_ gender _slowth_, reggularly, az _grow, growth_. +Widh _poart_ and _poast_, _poartal_, _poarter_; _poastage_, and dhe like. + +Better no attendant, dhan a false won. _O_ direct (dhe common _o_) can +nedher assume _o_, dhe servile ov _o_ depressive (_oo_); nor _u_, hwich +wood seem its partner in a dipthong. _Doar_, _floar_, and _moar_, ar dhus +reggular and safe; _dore_, _flore_, and _more_, widh equivvalent servile, +leve _more_ coincident; yet compounds prefer dhe final servile: az +_batteldore_,[1] _Blacmore_, _Hwitmore_; and _Strathmore_, scottishly +strong on dhe latter syllabel. + +_Soll_, spirrit, avoids occular union widh _sole_, alike, and _soal_: by +adopting dhe servile ov _poll_, _boll_, _toll_, _roll_ (widh _controll_,) +_scroll_, and _droll_. Like dipthongal dainger precludes _u_ from dhe +servile funccion, duly undertaken by _a_ in _soar_, _moarn_, _boarn_, +distinct from _boren_ or _bor'n_, dhe compannion ov _woren_ or _wor'n_, +_sworen_ or _swor'n_, _toren_ or _tor'n_, _shoren_ or _shor'n_, and clear, +az open and shut, ov _born_; in _coart_, _goard_, _coarse_, and _soarce_. +_Coarce_, dhe ded _boddy_, dies no more in _corpse_; hwen dhus _boren_ +decently to' interment. Dhis precaution suffers _o_ open, to' understand or +omit, dhe servile before _l_ and anny oddher consonant: az in _old colt_, +wonce seen and herd _ould coult_. If _old colt_ now suffice, _oald coalt_ +iz understood. For dhis rezon, _goald_ must no longuer be robbed ov its +depressive servile, wonce legally seen in _gould_. _Au_, widh les plea, +suppresses its servile in like sittuacion; az _salt_ and _alder_; except in +dhe singuel _assault_! _saut_ and _vaut_ being, now, duly out ov dhe +question. + +If _ou_ cannot now paint _o_ direct, much les can it picture _o_ depressive +(_oo_); in _you_, _youth_, _uncouth_; _should_, _would_, or _could_: for +_yoo_, _yooth_, _uncooth_; _shood_, _wood_, or _cood_. Hwen _ou_ Inglish +transferred its equivvalence from dhe French _ou_ to' dhe German _au_, +hwich compounds _a_ braud, widh _o_ depressive (_au_ widh _oo_); az itself +cood no more be frenchly interchaingeabel widh _oo_; nedher ov its parts +waz more likely to' becom so. _Do_ or _who_ can no more dhan _doe_ or +_hoe_, (boath better employed!) or dhan _shoe_, _canoe_, _lose_, _move_, +_prove_, _behove_; _Rome_, _Coke_, _Pole_, or simmilar; prezent dhe +prezzent _doo_, _hoo_, _shoo_, _canoo_, _looz_, _moov_, _proov_, _behoov_, +_Room_, _Cook_, _Pool_, or dhe like: for truith fears notthing from +coincidence ov sound, and falsehood always leads astray. _B_ may +distinctively open dhe vowel, in _climb_ and _comb_; but cannot render it +also depressive in _comb_, _tomb_, _bomb_, and _womb_; for _coomb_, +_toomb_, _boomb_, and _woomb_. Hwatevver _u_ may hav been in Lattin +vocallity, dhat figgure cannot guiv _oo_, even open, in Inglish; far les +_oo_ shut, in _pull_, _bull_, _full_; _butcher_, _put_, _pudding_, _puss_, +_push_, _bush_; _bushel_, _cushion_; for _pool_, _bool_, _fool_, +_bootcher_, _poot_, _poodding_, _poose_, _poosh_, _boosh_, _booshel_, and +_coossion_: in all ov hwich, dhe _oo_ iz doutles short az shut; and +distinct az _foolling_ and _fooling_. If _u_ cannot prommise _oo_ shut, no +more can _oo_ proxy _u_ shut, in dhe singuel _foot_ for _fut_. No servile +can attend a shut vowel; and _truith_ must hav her own, like _suit_ and +_fruit_: in dhe French _bruit_ it iz also distinctive. Alreddy hav we seen +_o_ direct disguized, no les dhan _o_ depressive; and can we longuer bair +dhe Gallic _beau_, for dhe Brittish _boe_; more dhan dhe dubble falsifier +_beauty_, for dhe Inglish _buty_, dhe sweet compannion ov _duty_? + +_Sew_, _shew_, and _strew_, wer dhe preddecessors, so cannot be dhe +identities, ov _soe_, _show_, and _strow_: dhe first dhus occularly clear +ov _sow_, so different verb and noun! dhe latter, distinct to' dhe ear by +dhe dipthong, hwich also distinguishes _slough_, no more swallowing _sluf_: +_toe_ and _tow_ (no more jostling widh _tough_, now _tuf_), _doe_ and +_dough_, _floe_ and _flow_, being respective coincidents; clear indeed to' +dhe eye, boath ov boddy and mind. _Ow_ final iz dipthongal in _how_, _now_! +_bow_ bend; _cow_, noun or verb; _sow_, the noun; in _vow_, verb or noun; +and in _allow_, _endow_. Dhe dipthong distinguishes also _slough_, +_plough_, and _bough_ branch. _O_ remains merely simpel in _dough_, az if +_dow_. _Bo!_ or _boh!_ interjeccion, coincides widh _boe_ and _bow_, boath +nouns: dhe latter leving dhe dipthong to' dhe verb, or its accion, hwence +dhe ball derives it in _bowl_; dhe open vowel distinguishing dhe _bowl_ or +bason, coincident widh _boll_ and _bole_. + + * * * * * + +3. VOCAL SUBSTITUCION. + +Dho won semblance may exhibbit, not onely two' senses, but two' sounds; won +symbol must not pretend to' paint anoddher, unles by distinctive +substitution. _E_ proovs dhus dhe lawfool substitute ov _a_, in _heigh-ho!_ +moddernized _hey-ho!_ in _heighday_, now _hey-day!_ _weigh_, _wey_, _hwey_, +_prey_, _bey_, _dey_; _dhey_, _dheir_, _eir_, _eight_, and _freight_; widh +_obey_, _inveigh_, _convey_, _survey_, and _purvey_; az wel az hwen febel, +in _parley_, _barley_, _Harley_, _Chudleigh_, and dheir fellows. + +But _e_ cannot be _a_, widh dhe servile dhat distinguishes _e_: _tear_ +cannot be clas-mate, at wonce to' _fear_ and _fair_. If dherfor _e_ cannot +be _a_, widh _a_ servile; and _a_ need no substitute in dhe verbs _tair_, +_wair_, _swair_, and _bair_; _peir_, dhe fruit, and _beir_, dhe beast, +claim dhe substitute vowel, widh due servile; _pair_, _pare_, _bair_ and +_bare_, being engaged. For like rezon, _braik_ and _grait_ admit no vocal +substitute. _Where_ and _there_ no more puzzel dhan bely, in dheir own +shape, ov _hware_ and _dhare_. + +_E_ fairly substituting dhe forrain _i_, in _pier_, _bier_, _mien_, _lief_, +widh _belief_, _believ_; _relief_, _reliev_; and dhe rest; so distinct from +_peer_, _beer_; _mean_, _leaf_; or so connected by alliance, forrain or +domestic; dhe substitucion simmilarly prevails in _shriek_, _fiend_, +_fief_, _brief_, _chief_, _atchiev_; _thief_, _thiev_; _repriev_, +_retriev_; _pierce_, _fierce_, and _tierce_: ettymollogy howevver, scorning +alike substitucion and superfluity, in _receiv_, _receit_, and dheir +collaterals. + +Forrain semblance belied dhe adoptives, _oblige_, _marine_, _machine_, +_magazine_, _fatigue_, _intrigue_, _antique_, and _shire_; til Londoners +began to' treat dhem az natives ov Ingland; not dreaming dhat dheir essence +cood not here be prezerved, but in dhe guize ov _oblege_, _marene_, +_mashene_, _maggazene_, _fategue_, _intregue_, _anteke_ (or _anteek_, +_mareen_, and dhe rest,) joined by _legue_, _twegue_, and _shere_: hwich +last, dho dhus sevvered from _sheer_ and _shear_, boath coincident in +sound, waz beguinning, in dhe false shape ov _shire_, (like _oblege_, in +dhat ov _oblige_,) to' violate Inglish harmony in evvery British nacion. +Dhe same propriety, dhat dhus gards dhe Inglish vowel (_e_), prezervs, no +les _piously_, dhe parental equivvalent (_i_), in _obligacion_, _marriner_, +_mackinate_, _mackinacion_, _indefattigabel_, _anticquity_, az wel az +_antiquary_; and evvery forrain buty, consistent widh domestic truith. + +If dhe prezzent century hav made manny improovments, in orthoggraphy and +elsehware; it haz certainly made manny alteracions, dhat wer dhe verry +reverse ov improovment. Som eying truith, onely in her parents, wood +_allege_ dhat _virtue_ alone cood _persuade_; havving lernedly perfwaded +dhemselvs, dhat _vertue_ might hav _sweetnes_, widhout partaking _suavity_, +by hwich dhey pictured _swavvity_. It seems howevver high time dhat a +certain kingdom, at length panting after evvery propriety, shood know and +confes, dhat her name iz no more _England_, dhan _Engelonde_ or _Angland_; +or dhan her sovverain iz _king ov France_! + +Since won symbol must no more usurp dhe office ov anoddher, _o_ wil no +longuer pretend to' paint _A braud_ open (_au_); in _ought_, _nought_, +_brought_, _thought_, _sought_, _fought_, _bought_; for _aught_ (now indeed +_aut_), and dhe rest: nor wil _groat_ and _broad_ expect anny more, to' be +acknolleged _graut_ and _braud_. + +Nedher _tongue_ nor _tong_ (alreddy won ov a pair) can picture _tung_; dho +_u_ stil employ dhe distinctive substitucion ov _o_ in _son_, male issue; +nor les propperly dhe ettymolodgic in _yong_, _mong_, _mongrel_, _monk_, +(widh _monkey_,) and _Monday_; in _monney_, _bonney_, _conney_, _condit_, +_constabel_; az in _yolk_, so in _covver_, _hovver_, _plovver_; in _lovver_ +and _glovver_, from _lov_ and _glov_. _Cullor_ (nevver _colour_) avoids +coincidence equally widh _collar_ and _coller_; dhe latter greekly, not +frenchly, affected _choler_. + +But surely a vocal groop cannot shrink into' an Inglish shut vowel: nor +cood dhe following French, or almoast French, be suppozed Inglish words: +_souple_, _couple_; _double_, _trouble_; _nourish_, _flourish_; _courage_, +_courteous_, _country_, _cousin_; _journey_, _journal_; _sojourn_, +_adjourn_, and _touch_; more dhan such oddities claim continnuance, az +_young_, _rough_, or _tough_: for _suppel_ (alreddy almoast Inglish in +_supple_,) _cuppel_; _dubbel_, _trubbel_; _nurrish_, _flurrish_; _currage_, +_curteous_; _contry_ (ettymolodgical substitute ov _cuntry_; like _yong_, +ov _yung_;) _cozzen_ az _dozzen_, no more _dozen_! _jurney_, _jurnal_; +_sodjurn_, _adjurn_, widh _tutch_; _tuf_ and _ruf_: not to' reprezent dhe +so duly exploded, az _authour_, _succour_, _superiour_ for _author_, +_succor_, _superior_; hweddher agent, accion, or adjective. + + * * * * * + +4. OV OPEN AND SHUT VOWELS. + +Az vocallity must often depend on articulacion; consonants, like vowels, +must nedher be too manny, too few, nor oddher dhan dhemselvs. If sounds +open must not seem shut, sounds shut must not appear open. No servile can +attend a shut vowel; hwich, on dhe contrary, must show dhe consonant dhat +shuts it. Hwen a consonant concludes dhe syllabel, after an open vowel; a +servile must gard dhe vowel from dhe consonant, hwich else wood shut it. A +shut vowel dhen must show dhe shutter, or be left apparently open. + +Dhe first vowel (_a_), slender or braud, may doutles be more or les so, by +dhe prezzence or absence ov dhe _stres_, or vocal exercion. _A_ slender, +self or substitute, iz open az garded, in _fain_, _fein_, and _fane_; +_wail_, and _wale_; open az unshut, in _paper_, _favor_, _braver_, +_bravest_, _braving_, _braved_: so in _fainer_, _feiner_; az wel az +_faining_, _feined_; _wailing_, _wailed_; _waling_, _waled_; articculated +_pa-per_, _fa-vor_, _bra-ver_, _bra-vest_; _fai-ner_, _fei-ner_, and so on: +for _a singuel consonant_, natturally (dhence nescessarily) _articculates +dhe following, _not dhe preceding_ vowel_. _A_, slender, iz shut in _fan_, +_fanning_; and the like. _A braud (au)_ haz its own distinctive servile in +_faun_ and _fawn_, in _all_ and _awl_, _ball_ and _bawl_. Dho _l_ remain +dhe servile in _balling_, az wel az dhe _w_ in _bawling_; it iz no servile, +but dhe effective shutter, in _ballot_, _bal-lot_, or dhe like. + +_A braud_, shut, plays its own part, hwen articculated by _w_ or _qu_ +(vertually _cw_,) in dhe propper _Waller_, az in _wallet_ or _quallity_; in +_war_, _quarrel_; _wart_, _quart_; _wan_, _want_, _quantity_, and such. _A +braud_, shut, not so articculated, substitutes _o_ shut: dhus dhe _o_ ov +_cord_ iz perfetly coincident, or unison, widh dhe _a_ in _ward_. Hware _a_ +performs its own braud-shut part, _o_ becoms dhe substitute ov _u_ shut, az +in _won word_; _quoth_ and _quod_. + +_E_ iz dhus open in _mean_ and _mien_, _tiend_ and _fiend_, _siev_ and +_seiz_; widh _grief_, _griev_; _relief_, _reliev_; _receiv_, _receit_, and +dheir fellows. Open iz _e_ likewize in _meat_, _meet_, and _mete_; (three +coincident!) _meeting_, _meting_, and _meter_; shut in _men_, _pen_, _fen_; +_met_, _set_; _penny_, _fennel_; _penning_, _setting_: and so foarth. + +_I_ iz open in _fine_, _finer_, _finish_; _dine_, _dining_, and _diner_; +_rime_, _riming_, and _rimer_; _fi-ner_, _fi-nish_, and so on: shut in +_fin_, _finnish_; _din_, _dinner_; _brim_, _brimmer_; _fin-nish,_ and +simmilar. + +_O_ iz open in _Po_, _pole_, _polar_, and _polish_; _mode_, _modish_; +_soal_, _sole_, and _soll_; shut in _sollace_, _pollish_, and _moddest_; +_po-lish_, _pol-lish_, and dhe like. + +_U_ iz open in _unit_, _unite_; _tune_, _tunic_, _punic_, _studious_; shut +in _studdy_, _unabated_: _u-nit_, _stu-dent_, _stud-dy_, _un-a-ba-ted_; +such compounds being licenced to' take in dhe singuel consonant ov dhe +prepoziscion. + +So hear we, and so see we, + +_a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, _u_, open; _ar_, _er_, _il_, _on_, _us_, shut; _may_, +_me_, _my_, _mow_[2], _mew_; _mas_, _mes_, _mis_, _mos_, _must_. So _Mary_, +_marry_; _even_, _sevven_; _ivy_, _Livvy_; _odor_, _odder_; _student_, +_studdy._ + +If dhen open vowels must appear open, shut vowels must appear shut. +Forrain, even parental, diccions cannot rule dhe picture ov dhe native: for +picture can hav but won oridginal. Widh parrity ov rezon may (and must +often) dhe parental vowel be open, and dhe descendant shut. To' edher iz +_Popes_ laconnic line applicabel: + + _Dhis dhey, dhat know me, know; dhat lov me, tel._ + +To' keep Inglish, dhus like French and Lattin, or spelling dhe contrast ov +speech; our litterature haz hiddherto' no likenes ov our language; and haz +continnued inaccessibel to' evvery native, az much az to' evvery strainger. +For, hwile we lernedly lov to' see + + Aloe, melon, lily, solemn, + carol, very, spirit, coral, borough, + manor, tenant, minute, honor, punish, + clamor, blemish, limit, comet, pumice, + chapel, leper, triple, copy, + habit, rebel, tribute, probate, + heifer, profit, + cavil, revel, drivel, novel, hovel, + city, pity, british, critic, + madam, credit, idiom, body, study, + tacit, licit, + hazard, ezad, lizard, closet, bosom, + vicar, + liquor, + liquid, + rigor, + rigid: + +We shrewdly hope to' hear, + + Alloe, mellon, lilly, sollemn, + carrol, verry, spirrit, corral, burrow, + mannor, tennant, minnute, onnor, punnish, + clammor, blemmish, limmit, commet, pummice, + chappel, lepper, trippel, coppy, + habbit, rebbel, tribbute, probbate, + heffer, proffit, + cavvil, revvel, drivvel, novvel, hovvel, + citty, pitty, brittish, crittic, + maddam, creddit, iddiom, boddy, studdy, + tascit, liscit, + hazzard, ezzad, lizzard, clozzet, buzzom, + viccar, + liccor, + licquid, + riggor, + ridgid. + +Hwile dhus notthing but _s_ can dubbel soft _c_, or sibbilantly shut dhe +preceding vowel; and render _precious_, or _vicious_, hwat dhey ar; but +_prescious_, or _viscious_; dhe sibbilants direct simpel figgure may not +onely becom, in dhe ostensibel _physic_, _visit_, and _vision_, a dubbel +depressive; in dhe real _phyzzic_, _vizzit_, and _vizzion_; but work equal +wonders, in _polysyllables_ ov anny extension; pretending, in dhe verry +name, to' paint _pollysyllabels_. And dhus dhe trokees grow innumerabel, +dhat shut and sharpen, shortening dhe former vowel; hwich dhey hav +hiddherto' pretended to' exhibbit slowly and smoodhly open: so leving +singuel dhe intermediate articulacion, hwich must be audibly dubbel, (must +shut az wel az articculate,) and continnue dhe equal impossibillity, ov +reading and writing our language. + +For, _hwen_ our _diccion_ attains, like _oddhers_, _dhe_ happy _habbit_ +_ov_ appearing hwat it iz; alternate strength and febelnes must prezent +_mallice_ and _maliscious_, _sollemn_ and _solemnity_, _morral_ and +_morallity_, _mannor_ and _manorial_, _limmit_ and _limmitacion_, _habbit_ +and _habittual_, _spirrit_, _spirritual_, and _spirrituallity_. So evvery +consequencial, hweddher ov trocaic or dactyllian stres: _orrigin_, +_oridginal_, _oridginality_, or _originallity_, _reallity_, _quallity_, +_equallity_, _verrity_, _verrily_, _ennemy_, _ammity_, _appathy_, +_probbity_; so, widh _propphet_, _propphesy_, and _propphecy_; but, by +penultimate or antepenultimate ennergy, (dhe stres on last but won, or last +but two',) _prophettic_, or _prophettical_: widh _philossophy_, +_philossopher_, and _philosopphic_; widh _avvarice_, _avvariscious_; +_lodgic_, _logiscian_; _phyzzic_, _phyziscian_; _immage_, _imadgine_; +_madjesty_, _majestic_. Az _alliment_, _saccrament_; az _orrifice_, +_saccrifice_, and _orrator_, widhout violacion ov aught _sacred_, or +chainge ov _oracion_. + + * * * * * + +5. OV DHE ASPIRATES, AND DHEIR INSERTIVES. + +_Oracion_ indeed iz dhus kept _sacred_ az _orrator_: for _t_ cood nevver +sibbilate (or play _s_) in _orthoggraphy_, aincient or moddern; nor a +dubbel articulacion pretend to' look singuel, more dhan a singuel a dubbel +won. Dhe dactyl _orthodox_ admits littel chainge in dhe dubbel trokee +_orthodoxy_; like _mellancolly_, vulgarly _melancholy_: but _orthoggraphy_ +and _orthograpphical_ ar, widh equal harmony, subject to' antepenultimate +power. Like Propriety dherfor inserts dhe shutter we hear, in dhe +duplication, az ov evvery simpel, so ov evvery aspirate, duly dubbled by +dhe simpel insertive. Dhus _p_ dubbels _ph_, and even _f_, _f_; in +_propphet_, and _proffit_. But, az _ph_ became _f_; so _bh_, universally +_v_, nescessarily dubbelled in _provverb_. Az _s_ or _z_ dubbels dhe soft +sibbilant aspirate, (_sh_ or _zh_) in _prescious_, _decizzion_, _t_ or _d_, +respectively, dubbled dhat dhey rendered equal to' _tsh_ or _dzh_: az +_tutching_ dhe _madjesty_ ov _relidgion_. + +But dhe Inglish tung, (raddher teeth,) enjoying dhe _dental aspirate_, +direct and depressive (_th_ and _dh_), beyond perhaps anny oddher language, +aincient or moddern; can no longuer be denied dhe appearance, hware it so +peculiarly pozesses dhe reallity, ov dubbling az wel az depressing its +power. No more dhen can be confounded dhe aspirates ov _oath_, _oadhs_; ov +_bath_, _badhs_, and _badhe_; ov _Otho_ and _oddher_, _Clotho_ and +_clodhier_, _dhis thing_ and _dhat thing_; _dheze things_ and _dhoze +things_: misaspiracion wil no more embarras, dhan misarraingement, _Dhe +Theater_. + + * * * * * + +6. OV REDUNDANT SERVILES. + +If _defiscience_ ov symbols hav been so ezily and so amply exampelled; a +ballance may be proffered in _redundance_; ov consonants, no les dhan ov +serviles. Hwen evvery mute minnister waz supplied to' vocallity; dhe +hardening gard ov _g_, at least, shood not hav been forgotten. If _i_ waz +indispensabel in _aingel_ and _dainger, u_ iz az recquizite in _anguel_ and +_anguer_, az in _guerdon_. _Guet_ and _guiv_ demand dhe (_u_) hardener, az +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 +graddually melted in _burrow_, ov hwatevver kind. + +Aincient ellocucion depressed no aspirate; sattisfied widh _ph_ or _f_, +_th_, _sh_, and _kh_ or _ch_; widhout _bh_ or _v_, _dh_, _zh_ or _gh_. Dhe +labial aspirate gennerated dhe Eollic digamma F (howevver turned), hwich by +and by gave birth to' dhe Lattin V. If primmitive tungs gain dhus at length +won depressive aspirate; succeding expression, particcularly dhe Inglish, +came to' dubbel dhe depressive _v_ az wel az dhe direct _ph_ or _f_. French +articculacion havving no more occazion for such dubbling dhan her parent +Lattin, dhe Inglish acute or sharp accent askt it _evvery_ moment; but +seing no _prescedent_ in oddher picturage, forbore to' _exhibbit_ it, even +until dhe _prezzent our_, dhat Inglish anallogy, matured at last, rezolved +to' be _seen_, az wel az _herd_; to' reggulate practice by theory, and +realize theory in practice. + + * * * * * + +10. DHE OLD ASPIRATE OV R. + +Som Greeks, followed by som Lattins, fancied to' ad rufnes to' dhe licquid +_R_, or to' paint its innate rufnes more foarcibly, by subjoining +aspiracion. Hence rushed dhe _Rhine_ and dhe _Rhone_, dhe _Rhemi_ and +_Rheims_, _Rhoda_ and _Rhodes_; _rhomb_, _rhumb_, _rheum_, and _rhubarb_. +Dhe _Rhine_ brought _Rhenish_; az _rhythmus_ _rhythm_, _rhyme_ and _rhime_; +til at length harmonious _rezon_ introduced _rime_, boath into' French and +Inglish; hwence dhe regennerated _Rine_, pouring purified _Rennish_, rouzed +dhe rappid _Rone_ to' rezistles emmulacion; brought _Roda_ to' _Rodes_, and +_rubarb_ to' _reumatism_. Dhe verry _rinosceros_ disdains now alike to' +ruffen hiz horn widh adscitiscious snorting, and to' stifel even hiz +moddern sibbilacion. + +Hwen dhe guttural aspirate lost dhe aspiracion, dhe simpel guttural alone +cood remain: az in _Caron_, _Kiron_, _Akilles_, _Cloe_, _Cronus_; widh +_carracter_, _corus_, and _coral_, stil quite clear ov _corral_: wonce +seen, because wonce herd, _Charon_, _Chiron_, _Achilles_, _Chloe_, +_Chronus_, _character_, _chorus_, and _choral_. + + * * * * * + +11. ODDHER ANTIQUATED IDELLERS. + +Among medial idellers, hiddherto', not onely suffered, but sanccioned, even +after parental ejeccion, ar[3] dhe _s_ ov _isle_; _l_ ov _fault_ and +_vault_, _p_ ov _receipt_, _b_ ov _debt_ and _doubt; c_ ov _perfect_ and +_verdict_[3]; here at last fairly seen _ile_, _faut_, _vaut_, _receit_, +_det_, _dout_, _perfet_, _verdit_. Alike idel iz dhe raddical _g_ ov +_feign_ and _deign_, for _fein_ and _dain_; and, werse (if possibel) dhan +idel, dhe _g_ ov _foreign_ and _sovereign_, for _forrain_ and _sovverain_, +from _forain_ and _souverain_; az dheze from _foraneus_ and _supraneus_. + + * * * * * + +12. FINAL FANTOMS, OR DUBBLERS OV FINAL FORMS. + +How manny final fantoms, in articculating shape, must Truiths torch beam +away! how manny dubblers ov a singuel clozer, espescially _l_, _f_, _s_, +and _c_! az _ill_, _off_, _ass_, _back_; so _err_, _inn_, _ebb_, _add_, +_odd_, _egg_: really no more, nor capabel ov being more, dhan _il_, _of_, +_as_, _bac_; _er_, _in_, _eb_, _ad_, _od_, _eg_. _Shall_, for _shal_, doz +addiscional mischief, by inviting ignorance to' brauden dhe vowel. + + * * * * * + +13. ODDHER FALSIFIERS, MEDIAL OR FINAL, OV LICQUIDS OR SIBBILANTS; +PARTICCULARLY, _TI_ FOR A SIBBILACION. + +Our misrepprezented consonants seem reducibel to' dheze. 1. Licquid for +licquid: _l_ for _r_, in dhe French _colonel_ for dhe Inglish _curnel_; _n_ +for _m_, in dhe unutterabel _Banff_, for dhe good town ov _Bamf_. Here too +may enter for explozion, dhe _n_ ov dhe indeffinite artikel, hweddher +before a licquefaccion or an aspiracion; nedher ov hwich iz a vowel: so can +we no more say _an unicorn_ dhan _an horse_, for _a unicorn_ or _a horse_. +2. Direct for depressive; _f_ for _v_, in _of_ for _ov_; _s_ for _z_, in +_as_, _has_, _was_, _is_, _his_; for _az_, _haz_, _waz_, _iz_, _hiz_: in +dhe verbs, _house_, _use_, _peruse_, _abuse_, _excuse_, _amuse_, like +_muse_, noun or verb; _chuse_ or _choose_, widh dhe _dubbly_ fallacious +_lose_ and _vase_: for _houz_ (like _brouz_), _uze_, _peruze_, _abuze_, +_excuze_, _amuze_, _muze_, _chuze_ or _chooz_, _looz_, and _vauz_. Dhe +verbs dhus, duly sevvered from dhe nouns, lead to' distinguish dhe verb +_refuze_ from dhe adjective _refuse_, az wel az from dhe substantive +_reffuse_. _Profuze_ and _profuse_, _diffuze_ and _diffuse_, ar simmilarly +distinguishabel. Az we saw _s_ play _dubbel z_ in _visit_ and _vision_, for +_vizzit_ and _vizzion_; so see we dubbel _s_ for _z_ in dhe middel, and for +won _s_ in dhe end ov _possess_, for _pozes_; hwich hwile oppozite stres +secures to' dhe ear from dhe formative ov _poze_, az _cares_ from dhat ov +_care_, dhe context may wel guide dhe eye ov attension to' dhe undouted +meaning. No wonder if dhe direct figgure ov dhe sibbilant frenchly _rose_, +and _occasionally rises_, for dhe depressive reallity; _s_ for _z_ in +_rose_ and _rises_, _occasionally_ between vowels; for _occazionally roze_ +and _rizes_; nay for dhe dubbel depressive in _risen_, for _rizzen_. Dhis +rivals indeed _Stephen_ for _Steven_, and even _nephew_ for _nevvew_. If +_Stephanus_ pretended to' pattronize dhe won, _neveu_ (not _nepos_) must +command dhe oddher. + +But dhe French acaddemy, so exemplary in evvery exhibiscion ov its +language, set nohwere so fatal or so followed an exampel, az in pretending +to' conjure _ti_ into' _si_ before a vowel: a combinacion indeed! hwich +Inglish picturage ventured onely to' constitute, raddher substitute, a +sibbilant aspirate; dhe same groop _condition_ prezenting in won picturage +_condicion_; and dhence in dhe oddher _condiscion_. Yet French led not +Inglish into' dhe dissolucion ov _x_ into' _ct_, in _flexion_, _reflexion_; +hwich dhe former nevver violated into' _flection_, _reflection_, or dhe +like. + + * * * * * + +14. DHE ORTHOGGRAPHY OV PROPPER NAMES. + +Innocent howevver wer oddher tungs ov mispainting, az ov mispronouncing dhe +dental aspirate; hwich not attempting to' substanciate even direct, far les +depressive, dhey aught not, at least need not, to' paint at all: az dhe +French _Tomas_, if les like hiz parent dhan _Thomas_, wood be so much liker +himself; hwile _Tommas_ alone can tel Inglish truith. + +But dhat _Tommas_, dho a gennerous confessor ov conviccion, iz not dhe +alone Brittish truith-teller; dhat he iz rivalled indeed by evvery oddher +propper aincient and moddern, can be no novvelty to' anny crittic ov +litterary natturalizement; hoo must onnor at wonce dhe, hware possibel, +prezerved ennergy ov orrigin; and dhe inviolate prezzervacion ov Inglish +anallogy; in dhe unchainged compannions ov _Euphrates_, _Darius_, +_Heraclitus_, _Berea_, _Thalia_, and dhe rest; az wel az in dhe +irreffragabel buties ov _Horrace_, _Terrence_, _Cezar_, _Ciscero_, +_Senneca_, _Soccrates_, _Democcritus_, _Empeddocles_, _Heroddotus_, no les +dhan ov _Jon_, _Phillip_, _Robbert_, _Parris_, widh _Hellen_, _Elizzabeth_, +and dheir oddher Anglicized frends. + + * * * * * + +15. DHE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPEL OV ORTHOGGRAPHY. + +Such iz dhe system ov INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY, braught widhin dhe compas ov a +few pages, on dhe unfailing principel, hwich aught to' govvern evvery plan +ov litterary improovment: first, to' make no chainge dhat can rascionally +be avoided; and dhen to' make precisely evvery variacion, from vulgar +practice, dhat can be demonstrated indispensabel. Nor iz dhis aught else +dhan a completed minniature ov INGLISH PROPRIETY _ascertained in her +picture_: two quarto-vollumes graciously received by hiz prezzent Brittish +Madjesty, from dhe same umbel hands; at St. Jameses, in 1786. + +DHE END. + + * * * * * + +THE ORTHOGRAPHIC RIDDLE. + +PREFACE. + + These emanations of the British Muse, + Where English thoughts could English dress refuse, + Were once presented to another press, + Though thence borne back, as hopeless of success. + What honest critic e'er could credit eligible, + Riddles to his researches unintelligible? + When ready caution guards the lit'rate realm, + Never shall foreign floods these isles o'erwhelm: + Orthography the mother-tongue shall give, + Ever, as every where, with Truth to live; + Truth, Reason, Beauty shall o'erspread the nation; + Shall solve the RIDDLE, with one contemplation. + + The public monitor of truth, + Sworn enemy to what's uncouth, + With blockheads similarly spells, + (Orthography with pleasure tells) + That thus the force of ridicule + Should laugh the learned back to school. + What then should cause that laughter strange? + What should occasion gen'ral change? + + Orthography the answer gives, + To satisfy whoever lives. + The honest will confess the pity, + Court, country, citadel with city; + That ancients, with the giddy young, + Should study still the Latin tongue; + Should leave to levity, to dolour, + The unproficient English scholar; + Should give the very stranger dread, + Of gibberish, that ne'er was read; + That ne'er was heard, without derision, + Eschewing ocular revision. + + This one example well will prove, + Will lib'ral laughter doubtless move: + When Pedantry shall cease to swell, + Honour'd Humility will spell. + The beauty then, of British truth, + Resistless shall enamour youth; + Shall evidence th' asseveration, + Throughout th' etymologic nation; + That one poetic exhibition + Could, without lit'ral intuition, + Fill ev'ry literary article, + Though never spell one single particle: + Could faithfully the whole present, + Without[5] once shad'wing what were meant. + + * * * * * + +DHE SOLUCION OV DHE ORTHOGRAPPHIC RIDDEL. + +PREFFACE. + + Dheze emmanacions ov dhe Brittish Muze, + Hware Inglish thaughts cood Inglish dres refuze, + Wer wonce prezented to' anoddher pres, + Dho dhence bor'n bac az hopeles ov succes. + Hwat onnest crittic ehr cood creddit elligibel, + Riddels to' hiz reserches unintelligibel? + Hwen steddy caucion gards dhe litt'rate relm, + Nevver shal forrain fluds dheze iles o'rhwelm: + Orthoggraphy dhe moddher-tung shal guiv, + Evver, az evv'rihware, widh Truith to' liv; + Truith, Rezon, Buty shal o'rspred dhe nacion; + Shal solv dhe RIDDEL, widh won contemplacion. + + Dhe pubblic monnitor ov truith, + Swor'n ennemy to' hwat'z uncooth, + Widh blockheds simmilarly spels, + (Orthoggraphy widh plezzure tels) + Dhat dhus dhe foarce ov riddicule + Shood laf dhe lerned bac to' scool. + Hwat dhen shood cauz dhat lafter strainge? + Hwat shood occazion genn'ral chainge? + + Orthoggraphy dhe anser guivs, + To' sattisfy hooevver livs. + Dhe onnest wil confes dhe pitty, + Coart, contry, cittadel widh citty; + Dhat aincients, widh dhe guiddy yong, + Shood studdy stil dhe Lattin tung; + Shood leve to' levvity, to' dollor, + Dhe unprofiscient Inglish scollar; + Shood guiv dhe verry strainger dred, + Ov guibberish, dhat nehr waz red; + Dhat nehr waz herd widhout derizzion, + Eskewing occular revizzion. + + Dhis won exampel wel wil proov, + Wil libb'ral lafter doutles moov: + Hwen Peddantry shal cese to' swel, + Onnor'd Humillity wil spel. + Dhe buty dhen, ov Brittish truith, + Rezistles shal enammor yooth; + Shal evvidence dh' assevveracion, + Thro'out dh' etymmolodgic nacion; + Dhat won poettic exhibiscion + Cood, widhout litt'ral intuiscion, + Fil evv'ry litterary artikel, + Dho nevver spel won singuel partikel: + Cood faithfoolly dhe hoal prezent, + Widhout[6] wonce shadd'wing hwat wer ment. + + * * * * * + +NOTES + +[1] If not vulgarized from _batteller_. + +[2] Ov _mow_ dhe vowel and servile coalesce, (az in _sow_,) into' a +dipthong, in dhe compound noun _barley-mow_. + +[3] From dhe old barbarous French _isle_[4], _faulte_, _voulte_, _recepte_, +_debte_, _doubte_; _parfaict_, _vraidict_: now duly _ile_, _faute_, +_voute_, _recette_, _dette_, _doute_, _parfait_, and _vraidit_ from _vere +dictum_. + +[4] Inglish propriety, and indeed common-sense, must also protest against +two' late _misnomers: Th'isleworth_ for _Thistelworth_; and dhe forrain +affectacion ov _St. Mary la bonne_ (or even _borne_) for _Marribone_. + +[5] Without one particle, representing what is read. + +[6] Widhout won partikel, repprezenting hwat iz red. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy +by James Elphinston + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY *** + +***** This file should be named 15901.txt or 15901.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/0/15901/ + +Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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