282» Gf DM. Bs. 
the o is made more in the mouth than in the throat. The 
Greeks ufe two characters for this found, though really 
one is only longer than the other, and the original inten- 
tion was good, becaufe the long found was denoted by the 
fame charaéter being marked twice (00 «), and it ought 
not to have been admitted as a new letter, as it indicates 
thereby, not a continuance, but a difference, of found. The 
ancient Greeks, as mentioned by Plato, made no diftinai- 
on in the long and fhort O (called now. the great and /itt/le 
9) nor in the long and fhort Z as may be feen in the word 
*sTPATEFON written at prefent stTPpaTHraNn. The 
power of o may be found in the fixth perpendicular column 
in the words, yoke, YOOK;---zone, ZOON};---SOT ;--- 
ROT, &c.. 
Wer 
Seventh common vowel: the organs are continued in 
the fame pofition as in pronouncing 9, except that. the lips 
are fo much contracted as to leave only a very. narrow 
aperture, and are much protruded.—z is pronounced in 
the fame manner as the Greek 4. Its power may be found 
in the feventh perpendicular column of the table of founds, 
in the words, yew, yuu;---zewgma,. ZUUGMA ;—loxp, . 
suuP;—rost, RuUT; &c. 7 
y- 
The eighth vocal found, is pronounced in the fame 
manner as. the fifth common vocal z, except that y requires 
a more forcible effort of voice, and the back part of the 
tongue rifes a little, to intercept. the found, which thus 
becomes tremulous. It is the vocal of the German ch, 
and of the gh of the Gaelic, Scotch, &c.—Its. power is 
found in the firft horizontal line of. the table of founds, 
in the words,. yawn, Youn;—yarn, YARn;—yell, YEL; 
&c. Ninth 
* Parkhurlt’s Lexicon of the New-Tefament (H.7 
