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Vol. VL— No. 155.] Satueday, October 16. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Plionetic Spelling, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. - 3S7 



Kpitaph on the Rev. John Morton, M.A., by H.T. Wake 358 



Lines on the Miracle of turning the Water into Wine - 358 



Inscription on the Church at Bavenno ... 359 



A Marriage in High Life .... - 359 

 Minor Notes : — Unwritten Historical Minutia: — Family 

 Likenesses and Wicliffe Family ... 



QlTERIRS : — 



Polish Custom at the Repetition of the Creed - - 360 



Sir Abraham Shipman, Knight ; William Cockayne, &c. 3ij0 

 Notes from Fly-leaves : Eikon Basilike, by E. S. Taylor 361 



Minor Queries : — Formyl — Charlatans of the last Cen- 

 tury—Trafalgar — Jewish Lineaments — Meaning of 

 Pewterspear — Jennings Family — Conditor Preciim 

 — Roofs of Anglo-Saxon Church Towers — Nero's 

 Baths — Late Brasses — Father Petre — Family of 

 Tlioresby the Antiquary — Story of a French Bishop — 

 Royal Scandals — Notices to Correspondents — High 

 lands and Lowlands .... 



360 



Minor Queries Answered: — Diaries of the Time of 

 James L— Sich House— Scheltrum — Kendall 



361 



. 363 



Replies : — 



West India Islands held by the Knights of Malta, by 



Henry H. Breen -.-.-. 364 



Government of St. Christopher's .... 364 



" Aber" and " Inver " ..... 3G6 



Chantry Chapels 366 



The Habit of Profane Swearing by the English . - 366 



On the World lasting 6000 Years, by W. Pinkerton, &c. 367 



Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle . - 368 



Salmon Fisheries ...... 370 



" Saw you my Father " . . - . - 370 



Photogrnphv applied to Archaeology, and practised in the 



Open Air,' by Dr. H. W. Diamond - - - 371 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Paley's MS. Lectures — 

 Where was the first Prince of Wales born ? — Arabic 

 Inscription — Pepys's Morma — Was Morell's Book, 

 plate by Hogarth? — Autograph of Edmund Waller 

 — " The Shift Shifted "—Anecdote of Milton — Muffs 

 ■worn by Gentlemen — Count Kdnigsmark — Motto — 

 Egyptian Beer— Title of James I.— " Courtier and 

 learned Writer " — Plague Stones — Bassano's Church 



Notes " — " Balnea, Vina, Venus " — Civilation 



Dutensiana — " Bis dat qui cito dat " — Adrian Scrope 

 the Regicide— Was Penn ever a Slaveholder ? — Does 

 the Furze Bush grow in Scandinavia ? — Use of Slings 

 by the early Britons — Blessing by the Hand— " La 

 Garde meurt," &c — Brasses in Dublin — The Maiden 

 Hildpgare — Church-stile — Scriveners' Company of 

 London — Progressive Development and Transmuta. 

 tion of Species in Vegetable Kingdom — Lobes Is- 

 lands ....... 373 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - . 378 



Notices to Correspondents - _ . . 378 



Advertisements ..«..- 379 



Vol. VI. — No. 155. 



PHONETIC SPELLING, 



In Howell's Familiar Letters, on what would be, 

 if it were paged, p. 256. (edit. 8vo. London, 1650), 

 is an address " To the Intelligent Header" i'rom 

 which we learn that an attempt to introduce a 

 phonetic spelling of the English language was then 

 made by the author. He did not, however, project 

 so great a change as the more recent professors of 

 the phonetic art, the editor of The Phonetic Neivs 

 for example, the first number of which paper, 

 published 6th January, 1849, is now before me. 

 In this paper the phonetic alphabet is made to 

 consist " of forty letters and two auxiliary signs," 

 with several additional letters to express " foreign 

 sounds which do not occur in English." Howell, 

 however, is content to remove such letters as 

 appear to him redundant. A portion of his " ad- 

 dress " is worth transferring to your columns, as it 

 may, perhaps, be followed by a few notes from 

 other correspondents, which may ultimately fur- 

 nish materials for a brief sketch of the history of 

 phonetics. Till I met with this passage, I was not 

 aware that the phonetic reformers could claim as 

 their supporter an author of such antiquity as 

 Howell. He speaks on this wise : 



" Amongst other reasons which make the English 

 Language of so small extent, and put strangers out of 

 conceit to learn it, one is, that we do not pronounce as 

 we write, which proceeds from divers superfluous 

 letters, that occur in many of our words, which adds 

 to the difficulty of the language : Therefore the Author 

 hath taken pains to retrench such redundant, unne- 

 cessary letters in this work (though the Printer hath 

 not bin so careful! as he should have bin) as amongst 

 multitudes of other words may appear in these few, 

 done, some, come ; which though wee, to whom the 

 speech is connaturall, pronounce as monosyllables, yet 

 when strangers com to read them, they are apt to make 

 them dissillabls, as do-ne, so-nie, co-rtte, therefore such an 

 e is superfluous." 



Amongst the changes which the author advo- 

 cates, many agree with our present orthography, 

 as physic, favor, war, pity, not physique, favour, 

 loarre, pitie ; but in others he differs greatly from 

 the received mode, as he proposes peeple, tresure. 



