122 DIACRITICAL MARKS CONTINUED. 



pet, par, etc. Some details of this subject will have 

 to be omitted here. Vowels Unmarked are to bo 

 understood as of the medium and ordinary length 

 and character, or, as Undiacriticised, but susceptible 

 of being rendered definite by the addition of the 

 marks like Un vocalized Phonography. 



155. The hyphen (-) is only retained for casual pur- 

 poses, as, chiefly, for connecting the parts of a word, 

 when occurring at the end of a line and at the com- 

 mencement of the next line. In the real composition 

 of words it is dispensed with, and the following im- 

 proved system is adopted. Commas, Semicolons and 

 Colons the bulk, as it were, of the Ordinary System 

 of Punctuation as it has heretofore occurred between 

 words only, and then " spaced out," as the printers 

 say, or with openings between the words are used, 

 also, Alwali, in the body of the ivords theTnsdves, but 

 without spaces / to mark the divisions of Syllables in 

 any way liable to undue coalescence, and to indi- 

 cate the composition of the words, generally. Thus, 

 i,ki,ia is a different word in composition and meaning 

 from ik,i,ia ; and the English word potjtook is so pre- 

 vented from being pronounced pojhook. If it is not a 

 mere separation of Sounds and Syllables, but a Com- 

 pound Word, which is to be indicated, the semicolon 

 is substituted for the comma ; as in English Ave might 

 print thunderstorm or house ; carpenter (instead of tlnni- 

 der-storm, house-carpenter) ; and in the case of still 

 more complex combinations the colon is introduced ; 

 as if in journey man:house;carpenter, where the n'*f of 

 the voice is something greater after the first word, 



