A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy | Page 5

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.
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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.
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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_;