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NoTB 2. — Ch is sometimes pronounced as in French in 

 this, word chaste, cha-ha — thou assentest; oftener, however, 

 as the Italian C, thus — c/iieons — tiiou art sick. 



NoTB 3. — D in the beginnine; of a word is sounded as 

 nd ; as ndi» for di» ; but in the end of a word, lilte tlio 

 Greek u, as Ihretid, as if it were Ihrenu — he was coming 

 here. 



NoTK 4. — E may he marked by tliree accents, acute, 

 rircuniflex, and grave, and varies in sound according to 

 the various sound of the accents. When it has i\\e acute, 

 it is sounded as the French masculine e in divinity, as ie — I 

 come. Ifcircumflcctcd, it sounds as the French worA dais, 

 vtonnoie; example, ond^y as if it were ondaie — he or she 

 that. And if it has the grave accent, it has a middle 

 soun<l between both, as ay in French, example — i^erhb — 

 I wish, I think. 



NoTK 5. — H is always a consonant, and is always sounded 

 with an aspiration. 1 is never a consonant. 



NoTK 6. — X, when it is written alone, does not sound 

 with the following vowel, as o;/«e — man. 



Note 7- — '^ is duplicate, as in Greek, viz. R lenis 

 and R aspirate. The lenis is that which is marked with 

 a light or no spiritus,as ^a'ronta — a tree, arenda — ceremony; 

 btu the aspirate is that which is marked witli the spiritus 

 aspcr, and gives a rough sound, as /tr'outa, /ir'enda — 

 a ro<'k. 



NoTK 8. — S i>! never pronounced as z, but as s s, ex. 

 atara — a handle of a kettle. 



NarK 9. — 1 and « often make but one syllaljlc, with a 

 vowel or dij)hlh()ii;,' following, as hyfurnshva — lot us go ; 

 ckiotirtesen — you are liberal ; twiivessan — we are liberal ; all 

 which are tri.iyllables : and when they are marked with two 



