A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy | Page 6

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!
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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_).
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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.
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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.
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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: