on the Englifh Alphabet. 197 
on the contrary, it is, as Dr. Johnfon obferves, 
*« generally founded col'nd’’ by the mere elifion of 
‘ano. And, without the elifion, the / has its 
proper found in the following lines, by Dean 
Swift :* 
No fubjeé& fit to try your wit 
When you went colonelling, 
- Butler alfo, in the firft Canto of his Hudibras, 
fays, 
Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, 
And out he rode a colonelling. 
Where, the metre requiring the pronunciation 
of all the fyllables, the latter word of each couplet 
~ eannot be curnelling. It is true that in Spanifh this 
office is written, and therefore properly pronounced 
Coronel; but who wiil fay that this argues a fingle 
point in proof that L ought to be pronounced as 
an Ww? 
L unites into an agreeable, liquid found before 
the conjoined diphthongs IE, EU and U, when 
this is equivalent to IU, as it is in a multitude of 
fyllables; and alfo before zw, which has the 
fame found; as, likewife, rev in the Englifh pro- 
nunciation of lieu. Such liquid found is in the 
words, 
 * In his anfwer to Ballyfpellin, written by Dr. She- 
ridan, 
