THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



graphic books. On these grounds Phonography may, in some re- 

 spects, be said to afford the writer facilities of the same nature as 

 those which the invention of printing opened out to the reader.* 



PHONETIC PRINTING. 



198. Closely allied with Phonography, as a mode of representing 

 the English language as it is pronounced, by a series of shorthand 

 characters, is a corresponding system of printing, called Phonotypy, 

 the alphabet of which answers to the simple shorthand alphabet, letter 

 by letter. The order of the letters in the Phonotypic Alphabet is as 

 follows : 



p b, t d, q j, k g ; f v, J d, s z, J 3 ; m, n, i) ; 1, r ; w, y ; la, 

 a B, e e, i a ; o o, p er, u ui : j, ~s, q,. 



The Roman, Italic, and Script forms of the sixteen new letters are : 

 6 q, R *, Ed, S J, X 3, TJ r). 

 Gg, E 6, Z d, Ef, K 5 , W y. 



j, "S" -5, 



O o, 0" &, III ui; UP: 

 (Do, t> o, W m ; W V : 

 67* * Wit 



R B, 8 e, Li; 



A a, s, li; 



199. This alphabet has been employed in the Exercises given in 

 this course of Shorthand Lessons, to aid the pupil in writing short- 

 hand. It now only remains for us to give a specimen of Phonotypy, 

 or the style of printing in which the pronunciation of the language 

 is represented to the eye, and a concluding sketch of Phonographic 

 literature, and we shall then have finished our course of Shorthand 

 Lessons. We select for our present subject the Constitution of 

 the Phonetic Society, as bearing immediately upon the subject of this 

 series of Lessons. The title of the Society is " The Phonetic Society 

 for the promotion of a Reading, "Writing, and Spelling Reform." It 

 was established 1st March, 1843, by Mr. Isaac Pitman, Bath, who 

 acted as Secretary. The President of the Society was Sir Walter C. 

 Trevelyau, Wellington, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



3E FCTNETIK SffSiETI. 



Objekts ov de Svsieti. 1. Tu ckstend de art ov Feraografi, or 

 Femetik Zorthand, bj fri tacjirj drua de past, and oderwjz, and tu 

 pramcrt de intelektqal imprurvment ov de memberz ov de Sersjeti. 



2. Tu intrcrdqs an impruivd meiod ov tiqig tu rid buks printed in 

 de prezent alfabet, bj a kerrs ov instrokjon in fonetik radig. 



3. Tu reform de ordografi ov de Iggli/ larjgwej, bj de qs, in rjtig 

 and printig, ov a Femetik Alfabet dat kontenz a leter for dq distiijkt 

 ssnd in de laggwej. 



Klasez ov Members. Klas 1. Rjt Fernetik Zorthand, and engej tu 

 korekt de Eksersjzez ov Students, irui de past, gratqitosli. 



Klas 2. Ejt Femetik Zorthand, but dm not korekt Eksersjzez fora 

 de post. 



Klas 3, Lernerz ov Feraografi. 



Klas 4. Memberz hui apruiv ov de Objekts ov de Sersjeti, bpt dra 

 not rjt Femetik Zorthand. 



Svbskripfon. Entrans ft, Qd. Anqal spbskripjon, not les dan 6d., 

 peabel 1st Janqari, or at eni tjm dqrig de mon^. A blarjk form ov 

 aplikejon for member/ip me ba obtend from de Sekretari bj forwardig 

 a pefstsj stamp. 



Direkfonz for prepcriy Zorthand Eksersfzez. Ejt in Femografi, 

 rn ruild peper, a fq versez ov Skriptqr, or a jbrt ekstrakt from a 

 nqzpeper, livig everi alternet ijn for korek/onz and remarks, and 

 send de Eksersjz (wid de printed slip ov de nqzpeper, if SDC; b.i em- 

 ploid) tu eni member in do printed List, in Klas 1, enklerzig an 

 envelerp, stampt and adrest, for its retorn. 



Femograferz, and ol hui apviuv ov eni ov do Objekts ov de Sersjeti, 

 ar respektfuli rekwested tu join won ov its Klasez, and dcs tu asist in 

 ekstendirj edqkEjon. Aplike/onz for memberjip Jud bi riten in 

 Zorthand for de ferst tin Klasez. 3e nemz ov nq Memberz ap.ir in 

 de F'onetik Jvrnal, poblijt wjkli, prjs 3d., and ar repated in an 

 Anqal List, poblijt 1st Marq, prjs 2d. Memberz bui kan rjfc 100 

 wordz per minit ar distiggwijt bj dc onorari mark (*) prafikst tu der 

 nemz, wid an adijonal (*) for everi adijonal 50 wordz. 



200. Reader, Practise and Persevere. 



* From Pitman's History of Shorthand, originally published in the 

 PJionotypic Journal for 1847, niid subsequently in a separate volume, in 

 Phonetic Shorthand. Subsequent editions have been issued. 



LESSONS IN ENGLISH. XVI. 



SUFFIXES (continued). 



" THERE is nothing that will help more to form an English heart 

 in ourselves and in others than the study of the English lan- 

 guage. We could scarcely receive a single lesson on the growth 

 of our English tongue, we could scarcely follow up one of ita 

 significant words, without having unawares a lesson in English 

 history as well ; without not merely falling on some curious fact 

 illustrative of our national life, but learning also how the great 

 heart which is beating at the centre of that life was gradually 

 shaped and moulded. We should thus grow, too, in our feeling 

 of connection with the past, of gratitude and reverence to it ; we 

 should estimate more truly, and therefore more highly, what it 

 has done for us, all that it has bequeathed us, all that it has 

 made ready to our hands. It was something for ftie children 

 of Israel when they came into Canaan to enter upon the wells 

 which they digged not, and vineyards which they had not 

 planted, fields which they had not sowed, and houses which they 

 had not built ; but how much greater a boon, how much more 

 glorious a prerogative, for any one generation to enter upon the 

 inheritance of a language which other generations by their 

 truth and toil have made already a receptacle of choicest trea- 

 sures, a storehouse of so much unconscious wisdom, a fit organ 

 for expressing the most subtle distinctions, the most tender 

 sentiments, the largest thoughts, and the loftiest imaginations, 

 which at any time the heart of man can conceive. "t 



Such is the opinion of one of the greatest authorities on this 

 subject. We purposely insert them at the beginning of this 

 lesson, in order that the reader may not be disposed to allow his 

 energies to flag while pursuing the study of his native language, 

 or be inclined to undervalue these lessons because they deal 

 with individual words. 



With this preliminary warning we continue the list of suf- 

 fixes from our last lesson. 



Ery, erie; compare together coop (a barrel), cooper, coopers/; 

 brew, brewer, brewery ; smite, smith, smithy ; and you see that 

 the terminations ery, ry, or y, denote a place where a certain 

 trade, etc., is carried on. Similar is the force of the ending ary 

 and ory ; as, aviary (Latin, avis, a. bird), a bird-room ; dormitory 

 (Latin, dormio, I sleep), a sleeping-room; granary, a place for 

 grain. Compare ary. 



" I can look at him (a national tiger) with an easy curiosity, as 

 a prisoner within bars, in the menagerie of the Tower."- Burke, " Regi- 

 cide Peace." 



Menagerie comes from the French menage, which is the origin 

 of our manage, and both are from the Latin manu, with the hand, 

 and ago, I drive, signifying to tame, to keep in order. 



Es or s is a suffix by which is formed the third person singular 

 or verbs, and the plural of nouns ; as, I read, he reads ; ship, 

 ships ; box, boxes. When an apostrophe precedes the s, as in 

 man's, the genitive case is intended e.g., man's book ; God's 

 word. 



Esque, a termination derived from the Latin iscus, through 

 the Italian esco, and the French esque, is found in grotesgne and 

 picturesgwe. Grotesque means distorted, unnatural, and hetero- 

 geneous ; from the strange and extravagant figures which were 

 painted in the grottos or crypts of the ancient Romans. 



" An hideous figure of their foes they drew, 

 Nor lines, nor looks, nor shades, nor colours true, 

 And this grotesque design exposed to public view." 



Dryden. 



Picturesque is that ivhich makes a picture, or may enter into 

 a picture. 



" Picturesque properly means what is done in the style and with tho 

 spirit of a painter." Steitart, " Philosophical Essays." 



Ess, derived from the Latin ix, the feminine of or ; as adjutor, 

 a helper ; adjutri;r, a female helper, converts masculine nouns 

 into feminine e.g., abbot, abbess ; actor, actress ; prince, 

 princess. 



Est, a verbal suffix, forming tbe second person singular of the 

 present tense ; as read, readestf. It finds corresponding termina- 

 tion in the s of the Latin, as legis, thou readest ; and the st of 

 the Saxon, as basrnsf, thou burnest. This suffix is rapidly be- 

 coming obsolete, since the second person singular of the verb is 



t Trench " On the Study of Words," pp. 25, 26. 



