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a proper diftinétion between their powers. The true 
found of f commences the words, fun, ean;—/fall, roo; 
—FraT;—/ame Feem; &c. in the ninth horizontal line 
of the table of powers. 
oO 
Twenty-fourth letter, and third afpirate—The tip of 
the tongue is placed againft the points of the upper teeth, 
exadtly in the fame manner as 1n pronouncing its vocal 9; 
but this is only an afpirate, yet ftrong, and of the fibilant _ 
or hifling kind, imitating exa@ly the hifling of a goofe. 
The Englifh affert this to be the found of the Greck ¢heta, 
but no nation agrees with them, and but few individuals, 
among whom however is Erafmus. They may becondemn- 
ed by fome for not adopting the general error, for it is 
certainly an error to give two founds to one character; and 
though many grammarians conceive it, in the Greek, to be 
a ftrongly afpirate J’ only, diftinguifhed thereby from the 
more gently afpirated tau, they will find it on examination 
to be #4, for o£0s written Seo and pronounced rapidly will 
produce ¢heos.—People who lifp make ufe of this found in 
all inftances where the s ought to be pronounced (fee p). 
The power of o may be found in the eleventh horizontal 
line of the table of founds in the words third, oarp;— 
thaw, ong; thank, oank;—shane, o£eEn; &c. 
S 
Twenty-fifth letter, and fourth afpirate—The tip of the 
tongue muft be raifed to the roof of the mouth, near the 
infertion of the teeth, as in pronouncing its vocal z, but it 
muft be prefled harder, and a forcible afpiration producing 
a hiffing found will form the s; the power of which may 
be found in the third horizontal line of the table of founds, 
in the words, /un, $an;--/aw, soo;--sar; &c. 
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