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pound words we find fsh in chiefohip, shf in gash/ul, and fhf in 

 h'uth/iil. 



§ 20. I now propose to present in a synopsis the results at which 

 we have arrived in the preceding investigation. I shall first collect 

 all conibinations of two consonants which exist in the English lan- 

 guage, whether they occur in simple or compound words. Those 

 printed in capitals are consonantal diphthongs which occur in roots, 

 those in italics such as are obtained by inflectional forms or composi- 

 tion, and those in common type such combinations as are brought 

 about by composition, and where the two consonants refuse to combine. 



I. 



Combinations of the Consonants with H. 



a. Hard consonants combined with h : 



ph (uphold), th (shorthand), JcJi (workhouse). 



b. Soft consonants followed hy h: 



bh (abhor), dh (wood-house), gh (log-house). 



c. Fluid consonants followed hy h: 



fh (offhand), s-h (race-horse), )(h (German Buch- 



vh (stave-head), sh-h (flesh-hook), halter), 



th-h (withhold). 



II. 



Combinations among the Consonants of the same Stations. 



a. Hard and non-sonant fluid con.^onants: 



V¥ (Germ. Pferd, ts (hits, Germ. Z), kx (Stiickchen), 

 Engl, hopeful), 7"*^'// (church), 

 tth (width). 



b. Soft consonants and sonant Jluid consonants: 

 hv (obvious), dz (heads, needs), 



DZR (judge). 



c. Fluid consonants followed hy hard and soft consonants: 



fp (half- pay), aS^T (store, fast), r:d (zdeath, buzzed), 



sht (washtub), thd (wreathed), 



thl (betrothed). 



d. Fluid consonants of the same station follow in(/ one another: 

 ths (cloths, loathsome). 



