194 Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
fuch afpirate, the femicircular Greek note would 
be as convenient as the H. * © Such novelties, 
however, notwithftanding they might help to rectify 
fome words, and to obviate the neceffity of retain- 
ing their ufelefs incumbrances, would, perhaps, 
gain few advocates among the number of fuch 
opinionifts as fancy, becaufe they will not exa- 
mine, that the common exuberances, or rather the 
intrufion of fome letters, and the improper com- 
mutation of others, are no blemifhes: though 
truly, as in cafes before alluded to, they impede 
pronunciation, and might fometimes throw a fhade 
upon the fenfe. 
f. 
J is acharadter which in Englifh is always uni- 
formly the fame, whatever vowel it precedes; its 
found is diftin&, and formed independently of 
other fimple founds; as is alfo the foft G, which 
ought, reafonably, to have fome minute fymbol 
of diftin&tion ; a fcore of which might be defcribed, 
any one whereof might ferve to note the variation 
of found, without incumbring the letter, or mif- 
leading thofe already acquainted with its various 
applications. 
* The words bw, tev, tye, are equivalent to who, 
when, and where, The whiftling wind and “ whirring 
pheafant” may be well written (for example) be Wichwy 
wivd ; wippivy pheafant. Then why not. have ufed our 
¢wn letters in a manner as little complex? 
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