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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.
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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_;)