198 - Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
words, lute, lubricity, alien; modillon, pavilion, 
quintillion, and many other. But in words be- 
ginning with lo; as lion and its derivatives, the 
firft letter after the t is the diphthong ai, or oi, 
wherewith the t does not blend into the above 
liquid founds, becaufe the fimple or y is intercepted 
by a vowel of grester denfity; a dierefis, therefore, 
though not expreffed, is to be underftood (as in 
many 
+ The LL of Spanifh words (which feems to be con- 
verted fometimes from the Cl, and, at other times, from 
the Plof their Latin roots) is applied to exa€tly the fame 
found as that of our moft liquid L, but with a greater 
latitude ; for it precedes all the vowels, except 7 and y. 
And the reafon why it glides into the liquid found before 
a, o, and u, is, becaufe the pronunciation W is every 
where followed by the audible, although invifible power 
of an z or (which is of the fame found) y rapidly 
abforbed, as it were, by its confecutive vowel. Such is 
the nature of Jamar, Ileno, lover, and Uuvia.. And juft 
the fame is the Italian gli, as in fogho, figha, oglio, where- 
of the endings are like thofe of folio, battalia, olio. Mr. 
Baretti miftakes, therefore, when he fuppoles that we 
have neither this found nor that of gn, in dagnare, mig- 
none; for, as well as the liquid l already exemplified, 
inftances fhall be adduced, under the letter N, to fhew that 
we alfo have this liquid found, afcribed to 7, which depends 
entirely upon a ftate of the vowels, correfpondent to thofe 
which give the liquid found to /, And this foft union of 
the vowels is fimilar to the fynzrefis ufed in Greek poetry, 
where in the Ionic diale&t the € is rapidly blended with 
the following vowel, fo as to form only one fyllable, as, , 
Miviv dade, Oecd, TMyaryiddes “Aysaros. 
