Cx DP Ww U & 279 
Rules for pronouncing * thefe letters, + thewing the 
formation of each diftinct found, in the Englith language, 
to which it is thought neceflary to appropriate a character; 
having a true knowledge of which, it will be impoffible to 
write incorrecily whatever is heard in any language, con- 
taining only thefe letters; and.as umpoffible to read incorrect=- 
‘ly any language written in thefe characters; for, by this 
method, the orthography and orthoepy determine each 
other; and, if the orthography of language were to be 
corrected, the pronunciation of the {cholar, would, by 
reading alone, be perfetly attained by the peafant and. 
the foreigner; deftroying thus, 2 the mof? effectual man- 
ner, all vulgar and local diale&s, and fitting even for 
oratory, every man of good capacity and utterance. 
The reader is now to reje& all prejudices refpecing 
Names. of letters, and is to ftudy only their Powers, - 
which in all cafes may be prolonged, except in the ftopt vo- 
cals and their afpirates ; and a good mode of obtaining pre-- 
cilely the true power of each, is, to tran{pofe the letter to 
the end of any word which that letter begins, then, by 
repeating the word rapidly, the letter will take its proper 
place, and the ear will determine if it poffefles the true: 
found... | . 
Pronounciation * 
* Though it is faid Pronunciation is fuch gue-nee fevibitur, nec pingitur, nec baurire cam fas 
ef, nifi viva voce. ; . ; ; 
+ It will be obferved in the line which I fo particularly recommend, that fome of the let- 
ters have been a little altered to render them mere fimple, and that fome of the Charaéters 
are merely common letters reverfed. The middle line of the A of the Eand Fhave been 
omitted which will render them more eafy for the type-founder, and lefs liable to blot in 
printing. The V and fare the A and J inverted, the ‘] is the E reverfed. The long S (f) fhould 
-be totally omitted, it has fomuch the appearance of f, The p isthe fame as the Saxon, but 
rather more diftinét: the O of the Greeks isalfoa little altered in the printing letters. The 
©, ofthe Goths, may be fomewhat altered in writing for the fake of expedition. UWMN 
are made like the fmall letters, u being the inverfe only of n, andwofm, filling the line 
with great beauty, and avoiding difagrceable angles, 
