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many fimilar cafes) as belonging to the o in thofe 
words, as lion, making two fyllables of i-o: but for 
the liquid found the i and o blend into one fyl- 
lable yo. All fimple vowels follow their general 
analogy and irregularity, without influencing the 
L which they happen to fucceed; as linen, lot, 
lote, luftre, lynx. It is an error, therefore, to 
think that L, or LL, has any independent, liquid 
found more than that in Jute: for the common appear- 
ance of words proves nothing; it is the ear waich 
muft analyfe founds, whilft the eye fhould direé the 
beft means of preferying their diftingions. 
M. 
M is always an unifon, and not different from 
the fame named letter of other languages; except 
that in French words it is fometimes turned into a 
found nearly like our ng; as, temps, 
N. 
N has very few exceptions to its regularity. The 
chief is its being in fome inftances filent after m. 
It is often affociated with the before mentioned 
diphthongs, ie, io, &c. and forms the foft found, 
which, in Italian, is characterifed by gn, and in 
Spanifh by 2, which is an abbreviation of uniform 
. found ;. 
