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* ouifh it from the word off in found as well as in 
“. felling. Though it is conftant to its found 
‘*« when fingle, yet it is frequently marked by two 
“« F's, as in chaff, fcoff; fometimes by ph, both in 
“« the beginning and ending of words, as in philo- 
‘* Jofophy, epitaph; and fometimes by gh, as in 
** Jaugh, cough.” 
G: 
G, Like its neighbour and frequent affociate, H, 
is a letter of apparently great bufinefs in the Englifh 
alphabet ; but often in fact, is now only a kind of 
finecure retainer, fuperannuated, as it were, and 
fufpended, by modern cuftom, from much of its 
ancient ufage in the language. 
’ It has its genuine, hard found in garland; it is 
converted into the Englifh J, as in gaol, gem, &c.3 
in gnat, gnaw, oglio, &c. it is filent: before Heat 
becomes hard (like the Italian) as ghaflly, gherkin, ghefs. 
The fame conjunction, gh, at the end of words, 
is frequently founded like F, as tough. It is filent 
in dough, except in fome northern pronunciation. 
The saME Gu, in one or two inftances, fill 
retains its GENUINE, ANCIENT souND, which, being 
uncompounded, I have added to the numver of 
fimple founds in our language; marking it, as 
fome of the other afpirates alfo, with the Greek 
yz. Such is its found in the word Lercu, the 
name of a neighbouring town in this County, and 
alfo 
