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such originals as ' cando ' could not have produced the Spanish 

 words cuando, cuantidad, cuarta, cuestion (formerly ' question ' ; 

 nor could ' aca ' have produced Italian acqua, Spanish agua^ 

 Rhastian aua, ava, and Wallachian ape. 



In conclusion, an opinion may be given, that as o^^phthong 

 means two sounds, it is possible to separate such, as in ol'co and 

 occo (to suppose), and we find the monosyllable xXec^ beside its 

 cognate dissyllable xh/c(;. Bat if the power of er or o: is that of 

 I, as in Ellenic (modern Greek), no division can be made, be- 

 cause a vowel cannot be separated into two sounds, and diasre- 

 sis has not the power to "separate " the English word be into 

 by, boy, or bo-i. 



