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applications. Both G and J might be called ge 
or ja; for the foft found: and, for the hard found, 
G might be called eg or ghe. A point, within, might 
diftinguifh G as it does €. 
The. found of the French J is exactly that of 
Z-ya, quickly pronounced as one fhort f, lable: 
and this compound found is audible in many 
Englifh words, where Z precedes a diphthong, of 
whic the firft vowel is I (or Y) as in azure, 
equivalent to aziwre, for the uw in this word is a 
diphthong, and might be conveniently character- 
ized by a point over the u in this manner u. 
Leifure upon the fame principle, by the different 
pronunciation of the S, comprizes alfo the fame 
found, Jeiz-your. 
On the contrary, there is no found of Z in the 
formation of the foft Englifh G or J, which are 
pronounced like G in the Italian adverb, Gia. 
They are indeed mere unifons, as is each of the follow- 
ing founds, eth, efh, gh, fh, and eh, or etch, which iscol- 
laterally relative to G; and though the letter d may 
be fuppofed nearly related to J and G, as forming 
a part of the found, becaufe we write, edge, judge, 
wedge, &c. yet the reverfe is moft probable; for it 
may be obferved that the d in thofe words cannot 
be completely founded without dividing the word 
into two fyllables, jud-ge, making a great hiatus in 
the pronunciation; which would not be the cafe 
if it were congenial with any part of the found 
of G, It follows, therefore, that no true affimila- 
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