190 Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
every fimple found fhould have its own inalienable 
note of diftinétion. ‘The fofter th Mr. Sheridan has 
marked by a line acrofs the h; as th which in the 
Caftillian has the fingle charaéer z. but, if th muft 
remain, would it not be better to conjoin them fo 
as to appear as they ought, one type, with one 
properly expreflive name as the or eth; and fo like- 
wife eg or ges efh or fhe, each with fome fmall mark 
for diftinguifhing the anomalies : thus, not to render 
books unintelligible to pofterity by expunging any 
thing, all the old conftructions of the alphabet might 
be reverently preferved both by pen and prefs. * 
Now in regard to the found of ch; as in chill, it 
does not appear to me that any one has noticed that 
we have a fimple alphabetical character expreflive of 
this 
The words in the Greek, which ought, at leaft, to be 
parallel to the above original, are: ual dimay dvTOIS avbgec 
Taruded, My "EQgadirys 3 ual errev dv. Kal Grav 
auto, atov dy STAXTE. ual dv uerevSwve TE AwAou 
BTW, 
This is the fame as if it were tranflated:—An ‘the men 
of Gilead faid to them (individually ) art thou an Ephra- 
thite? And he faid, No: And they faid to him pronounce 
then EAR OF coRrN: and he could not contrive to pro- 
niounce fo.—Now, would not our Englifh tranflation alfo 
be better thus: and the men of Gilead faid unto each art 
thou an Ephrathite? If he faid, nay: Then faid they 
unto him, fay now fhibboleth (which fgnifieth an ear of corn) 
and he faid fibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce 
it exaétly (b) right. 4 
b. Exaétly, or fome fuch adverb, the verb being in pihel. 
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