1862.] ^]_ [VoAvels. 



The following diagrams will furnish a key for these signs : 



sheej), ship pool, pull 



rnd,«ge -/ \ _ fore, fdl 



flit, f«st — ^ ^ . ^, 



^- •=::- father 



Of the two marks used in pointing out the position of the tongue, 

 the one which is white, viz., , qJ, represents the long vowels, and 



the other which is black, viz., f 9 j, the short : these marks are bor- 

 rowed from musical notation. 



As regards the names by which to call the signs, I propose to 

 follow the same plan which is pursued in the alphabet. Thus a in 

 arje will be called long «, and its corresponding short sound, viz., c in 

 cud, short a ; o in nofc, will be called long o; a in father-, long ah ; a 

 in fast or a/t, long a{ft) ; and a mfat, short a{ft) — the two con- 

 sonants in brackets are not to be pronounced, but the vowel a is to 

 receive that sound which it has in aft. A in fore, and e in fell, I 

 call ai (?•) ; a in all and loliat, or o in o^and 7iot, an, or aice, and u 

 \n flute and pull, oo. 



The above table, containing the long and short vowels in use in 

 the English language, may therefore be expressed with the following 

 signs and names : 



B. (\^ = short a (ft), 

 5. Q^J = short a (ge), 

 7. ^^^ = short ai (y), 

 9. (^^ = short ce, 

 11. fj = short oo, 



14. fj = short aw, 

 16. (j^ = short u (p). 

 In the pronunciation of No. IG, which is the unmodified vowel- 



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