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found, it might remain as at prefent;* and, for 
the hard found, a point might be inferted within 
the ©, asin fome Hebrew letters. No -difficulty 
can arife from K and Q, though one of them is a 
redundant letter; becaufe, when they are founded, 
the found is always uniform. K before N at the 
beginning of words is not now pronounced. But 
in fuch German words the found of the & fill 
continues; as das knie, the knee. 
D. 
D— This letter is of an uniform found in the 
Englifh, but is confounded with the T’ by the Ger- 
mans, who fay indifferently, either Deutfch or 
Teutfch; hence, from taube, comes the word dove, 
and from thaler, dollar, &c. 
F. 
F, ‘* Has always its own found,” as Mr. Sheridan 
obferves, ‘‘ except in the particle of, where it has 
‘“‘ the power of a v, and is founded ov, to diftin- 
guifh 
' * In the Ruffian Alphabet, K and C are diftin®; the 
former having the fame found as we give to it, and the 
latter that of S, 
It appears, from Roman names written in Greek 
letters, that the C, though not fo prepofteroufly ufed, as 
to ftand for S, had however two founds, but both ana- 
logous; that of K, and that of T. As Appian, for 
Caius Cefar, writes Pai@o Kaicug, 
