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gives nearly the fame found, only fofter.* In 
fome of our words the found of the 4 is no longer 
ufed, though the letter be written; as in dumb, 
crumb, and many others: 
C, 
C—To this one letter two different founds are 
given, contrary to all juft rule.f And it ferves 
alfo in the compofition of what are erroneoufly 
confidered as double letters; namely CH, as in 
cheer (from the Italian cera)¥ and CH, in chafm; 
where, however, it only obtains the found of K, 
as in Italian words, the afpiration being almoft 
wholly laid afide. 
. That 
* Of the letter V they fay: ‘Su pronunciacion es cafi 
como la de la 6; aunque mas blanda, para diftinguirla 
de ella, y folo tiene ufo en aquellas voces que traen fu 
etimologia de las palabras latinas, u otro idioma en que 
fe efcriben con v, u otra letra que fe convierta en ella, 
para no desfigurarlas de fu origen.” 
Mr. Harris, in his “ Philological Enquiries,” gives a 
{pecimen from the Formularies of the Greek Court drawn 
up by Conftantinus Porphyrogenitus, who reigned in the 
beginning of the eleventh century, according to Dionyfius _ 
Pecavius about the beginning of the tenth) wherein the 
Greeks at that time ufed, in their Helleniftic Latin, the 
B for V, as KavoégRer Ades yumégep Becgep, &e. for 
Confervet Deus Imperium vefirum, &c. 
+ See Beza or Mekerchus as laft quoted. 
{ This charaéter and found of CH feems to have been 
taken from the Spanifh, wherein it is exaétly the fame; as 
in mucho, much, But Sancho we convert into Sangko. 
