on the Englifh Alphabet. 18 5 
in Kercutey, a town in Yorkfhire.* And this 
pronunciation is nearly if not exactly that of the 
Hebrew 7 or the Greek, Ruffian, or Spanifh X. 
The latter language has alfo two other characters of 
nearly the fame kind; as G before an E or IJ, and 
J before any of the vowels. The G in the German 
Janguage has alfo a fimilar, if not congenial found, 
though with greater latitude; not always depending 
upon two particular vowels; as gegen, genug. 
CH in this language is alfo of a found equivalent to 
the gh in Leigh ; as licht, recht, wicht, &c. from the 
fame roots from which we derive the words light, 
right, wight, &c.f 
Aa In 
* « The word Lough, for a lake,’? Mr. Sheridan notices, 
“has a peculiar guttural found in the Irifh pronunciation 
«not fuited to Englifh organs, by whom it is gencrally 
** pronounced lok,” 
+ The Englifh alfo, as noticed above, can with great 
facility pronounce the fame found, when, perhaps, fo little 
con{cious of doing it, that they would find a difficulty in 
forming the like termination to other words, befide thofe 
they have béen accuftomed to write and pronounce in that 
manner: thus few Englifh could afpirate CH according to 
‘tthe Greek and German mode; but to gh they readily give 
that found. To moft words derived from the Greek, and 
beginning with ch, we give the found of K. but the initials 
in the word charity, which we derive through a medium of 
pronunciation very different from the Greek, have a found 
Sill more remote from the origin than the found of the letter 
EK 
