1861.] 375 [Syllabification. 



ship, clerkship; wise-I^, hrother-li/ ; duke-dom, hing-dom; hlithc- 

 some, hand-some; hoy-hood, man-hood; hliss-ful, spoon-fid, &c. 

 Still, this rule cannot be carried out in all cases, for, in order to pre- 

 serve the correct pronunciation, we must divide ta-ken, ma-her, ha- 

 Iceri/, fla-ming. When any of the above suffixes belong to simple 

 words, as in open, garden, oven, Peter, anger, muster, Ji utter, I ucern, 

 &c., or when the simple words are dissyllables, contracted into mono- 

 syllables, before the suffixes are appended to them, as in brethren, 

 huntress, portress, mistress, ko,., th.Q division into syllables is made 

 according to the phonological laws, viz., o-pen, gar-den, ov-en, Pe-ter, 

 an-ger, mus-ter, jiat-ter, lu-cern, hretli-ren, hunt-ress, port-ress, mist- 

 ress. 



3. In such words of Greek and Latin descent, which are generally 

 recognized to be compounded even by non-classical scholars, e. g., 

 demo-cracy , ortho-doxy, poly-gamy, geo-gnosy, cosmo-gony, theo-logy, 

 soli-loquy, pyro-latry, logo-machy, geo-mancy, poly-mathy, geo-metry, 

 astro-nomy, mono-poly, allo-pathyy horo-scopy, philosophy, ana-tomy. 

 Still, it would be advisable to divide these words according to the 

 phonological laws, e. g., de-nioc-ra-cy, or'-tho-dox-y,podyg'-a-my, ge- 

 og-nosy, cos-mog'-o-ny, the-olo-gy, &c. 



4. All prefixes usually form separate syllables, e. .g, ah-ominatc, 

 ad-orn, he-long, coyisider, contra-diet, circum-vent, di-gest, dis-use, 

 de-dicate, e-licit, ex-ile, in-oculate, intro-duce, inter-val, oh-tuse, per- 

 ceive, pre-dicate, post-pone, retrospect, pro-mote, re-formation, se-duce, 

 suh-ordinate, super-add, trans-act, &c. It is questionable, however, 

 whether it would not be much better to divide all these words accord- 

 ing to the phonological laws, viz., a-dorn, ded-i-cate, pred-i-cate, 

 transact, &c. 



An etymological division of words is artificial. It may please the 

 eye to have words divided etymologically at the end of a line, yet for 

 the purposes of exhibiting the true pronunciation of a word, in pro- 

 nouncing dictionaries and spelling books, they ought always to be di- 

 vided phonologically. It will be seen in a subsequent part that a know- 

 ledge of the true articulation of English words is of great importance 

 in order to solve satisflictorily the problem of English pronunciation 

 and orthography. 



§ 46. I now propose to state the Principles of Phonological Syl- 

 lahification in English : 



1. When two vowels meet in a dissyllable, the first belongs to the 

 preceding, and the second to the succeeding syllable, viz., cha-os, 

 Sto-ic. 



