202 Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
the character zh be equally inapplicable to the 
found of the French ;. 
The miftake feems to have arifen from having 
given powers to the confonant which really depend 
upon the vowels which immediately fucceed it : 
and a fimple vowel, as already noticed, has no in- 
fluence; it muft be a diphthong, of which the 
firft part is one of the very flender vowels, ¢ or y; 
(founding as ce in tree) thus in the words, azure, 
ofier, a diphthong follows both the s and the z; 
and let the found of z be given as ufual to the s in 
ofier, and the analyfis will be thus: ozyer. Y is 
ufed here, rather than i, becaufe the flender found 
is oftener given to it than to the latter, and it 
therefore better anfwers the purpofe of explanation. 
Azure admits of a fimilar analyfis; the diphthong u, 
founded you, follows the z—it might therefore be 
expreffed thus : az-your. 
Perhaps alfo the found of —fion, at the end of 
words, depends rather upon a like analogy of the 
diphthong, fo* or yo, than upon the full found of 
jh; as the word fufton may be thus defcribed: 
fuze-yon or fewz-yon. | 
The termination, —tion may be tried by the 
fame rule: thus, if the t be perverted to the found 
of s, it might be nearly expreffed as follows; acs-yon, 
from aétion. 
So 
* See page 171, where this charatter is united, and has 
the found of you or ya, 
