on the Englifh Alphabet. 177 
by a whole nation. For at this time, in different 
countries, there is a great diverfity of opinions, 
refpecting their pronunciation ; people, in each 
place, adapting their own domeftic accents to Lan- 
guages, Originating many centuries back, and at. 
the diftance of many hundred miles. 
Z ‘Now 
SEE 
References to the oppofite Table. 
* All the Characters which are marked with 
an afterifk, have, in found, fome analogy to 
each other; therefore, whoever is acquainted with 
one or two of them, will not be very far off the 
found of the others; but the yx, which is added to 
the Spanifh and German G, does not futhtiently 
exprefs the true found, which ought to be heard, 
previous to imitation: indeed all explanation of 
alphabetical founds depends upon a continual chain 
of references from language to language, and from 
one analogy to another. 
¢ Th, gh, ch, sh, th, are all improperly and 
unneceflarily: ufed as fymbols of fimple founds. 
~ The termination. nc, (which may follow any 
vowel, as ang, eng, ing, ong, ung, and yng) being 
neither a complete n nor a complete g, but a kind 
of nafal found between the two, it may therefore 
be added; and the fimple confonants will then be 
twenty-one. For more particulars concerning this 
character, fee the latter note upon G.; and alfo 
Mr. Sheridan’s Rhetorical Grammar.—The found 
of Y is not well known, and therefore omitted. 
