VARIATION IX ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. 73 



fluctuate (3), fortune (3), future (5), fructual (3), gesture (3), gratu- 

 late (4), habitual (5), importune (6) ,- indenture, ineffectual (4), infatu- 

 ate (3), intellectual (9), jointure (2), judicature, lincture, literature, 

 lecture (5) , legislature, ligature, mantua, manufacture (4) , menticult- 

 ural, miniature, misadventure (2), misconjecture, misfortune, mixture, 

 moisture, mortuary, multure (2), musculature, mutual (6), nature (8), 

 nervature, nomenclature (2), nurture (2), obituary (4), overture, pas- 

 ture (4), patulous, peradventure, perpetual (8j , petulant (3), photo- 

 sculpture, picture (5), pinnatulate, piscicapture, pisciculture (2), plan- 

 tula (2), portraiture, Portugal, Portuguese, posthumous (2), postu- 

 late (4), posture, prelature, presumptuous (3), preternatural (5), pre- 

 texture, primogeniture (2), projecture, prompture, promptuarj', punct- 

 ual, purpresture, pustule (9) , puture, quadrature, rambustious, rapt- 

 ure (4), recapitulate (5), recapture, recaptual (2), righteous (3), rit- 

 ual (5), robustious (3), rumfustian (2), rupture, sanctuary (2), satur- 

 able (5), scripture (8), sculpture (5), sepulture (2), sepurture, serrature, 

 signature, situate (2), spiritual (16), statue (11), striature, stricture, 

 structure (7) , sumptuous (5) , supernatural (8) , supersaturate (2) , super- 

 spiritual (2), superstructure (2), suture (4), tablature, tactual (2), taran- 

 tula (3), temperature, tempestuous (3), tenosuture, tenture, texture (11), 

 tincture (2), tortuous (6), torture (6), triplicature, triturate (5), trun- 

 cature, tumultuous (7), unctuous (4), uneffectual, unfeatured, unfortun- 

 ate (3) , unigeniture, unlectured, unmanufactured, unnatural (8) , unnur- 

 tured, unportuous, unpresumptuous, unpunctual (3), unraptured, unsat- 

 urated, unrighteous (3), unscriptural (2), unsculptured, unspiritual (3), 

 unstatuable (2) , unvirtuous (2) , unvoluptuous, ustulation (2), usufruct- 

 uary, usurpature, vaidture, venture (8), verbiculture, vestiture, vest- 

 ure (3), viniculture (2), virtue (6), virtuous (3), viticulture (4), vitri- 

 facture, vivisepulture, voluptuary (4), vulture (5), wafture — making 

 461 words. 



The Dictionary sanctions the pronunciation of c/ as «' or J 

 in the following words : — 



Arduous (3;, education (5), glandular, gradual (3), grandeur, inde- 

 ciduous (3), individual (13), modulate (6), nodule (9), occiduous, 

 ordure (2) , procedure, prociduous, quadriglandular, residue (8) , sedu- 

 lous (3), supersedure, tedious (3), uneducate (3), unimodular, unindivi- 

 dualized, verdure '2) — making 72 words. 



The vacillation of the sound of / and d under the condi- 

 tioifs we have considered warrant the Dictionan,' in making 

 the following observations quoted from the preface : — 



