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So likewife martial, partial; confcience, patience ; 
and words of fuch termination, might be refolved 
into mars-yal, pars-yal; cons-yence, pace-yence; in all 
which examples the rapid concurrence of the two 
laft fyllables, i-al and i-ence, is indifpenfibly necel- 
fary for giving the required found. 
The word queftion, without perverting the ¢, 
may be analyzed queft-yon. 
From this examination it appears, that the full 
found of fh is not congenial, nor indeed ufed in 
the above words; but is rather to be confidered as 
one of the depravities ef ptonunciation, which 
time or caprice may now and then have infinuated 
into the language. 
a 
T has always its genuine found; as in tablet, 
except in the above and fimilar terminations, and 
in the word fatiety, pronounced Jfafee-ye-ty. 
i 
V. 
V is every where in the Englifh of one equal 
found, ‘“* of near affinity with f. From f in the 
** Iflandick alphabet, v is only diftinguifhed by a 
** diacritical point.”* Indeed fuch points would 
give every requifite precifion to an alphabet, and 
correct the incoherent affemblage of characters. 
Cece X is 
* Dr, Johnfon’s Grammar. 
