REMARKS ON THE USE OF NAMES. 



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loopists to 

 )iisonantal 



rnizc what 

 it any one 

 ord marlyr 

 'tlicr it 1)0 

 arccly an^' 

 angcable. 



J smoothly 

 long. For 

 vowels in 

 il. Proper 

 •om either, 

 ) also come 



like Latin 

 :ten at, and 



the whole 

 mr English 

 ish knife. 



mcful. It 



ally at the 

 s, Arde-a. 

 sound little 

 iffht. 



long Eng- 

 rhon initial 

 togenes. It 



I}- ending a 

 ys two full 

 blcs : e. g., 

 diphthongs 

 ironounced 



OA and 00 and OXJ do not combine ; bo-ops l.as two, arcto-us or arcto-a three, 

 and o-olugy four syllables, ou diphthong very early passed into long .3. 



OE, when fully but rapidly said in combination, seems to yield ii\c diphthong a 

 preceded by a slight w sound ; the whole nearly as the English word way. If not 

 this, it is indistinguisliable from Latin a. We are incliiicd to say teay-nunt/te for 

 cenanthe ; if not this, then ay-nanthe, not ee-nanthe nor oi-nanthe. The combination 

 U sometimes interchangeable with a, as calum or calum. It is to be carefully dis- 

 tinguished from and e uncorabined ; as in Arsinoe, Cldo'ephaga. 



01. These two letters may combine or not. Generally they do not, each being 

 a distinct syllable. Thus, Pic-o-i-des is a word of four syllables, the second and 

 third of which are o-ee. oi in combination is given by some as iu English oil, but is 

 perhaps more nearly the French oei in ceil. As ai passed into «, so oi early became 

 CB, and some direct the letter to be sounded as oi. 



UA and UE, in combination, yield sounds like English wah and way ; as suaoii, 

 suecica. 



UI, equivalent to oo-ah-ee, is like the French oui (yes), very nearly the English 

 pronoun we. The rare UU seems to be simpl}- u "X extreme length : equus. 



Y making a diplithong with a following vowel gives the sound of such vowel 

 preceded by w ; as, Myiarchus = Mweearchus. It only occurs iu Greek words, by 

 transliteration for upsilon. 



In some cases three or four vowels come together ; but the pronunciation va&y 

 usually be determined b^- the foregoing rules. Thus : Agelceus, Pocecetes, Halieeetus. 

 In these cases respectively ae and oe are combined, and pronounced as above said ; 

 the other vowels are distinct. Hal-i-a-'e-tus is a word of five syllables. My-i-o-di- 

 oc-tes is one of six syllables, though in practice reduced to five, by slurring the y and 

 i togctlier. In trudeaui, again, are four vowels together ; but in this case eau com- 

 bine into long o, and the word has but three syllables. 



Consonants. 



Most of the consonants have their English powers, pure and simple. Some, 

 however, call for remark, especially in certain of their combinations. 



The letters c and g are now said to be " always hard," without qualification. It 

 is a much vexed question. As it is not demonstrated tliat the Romans had no soil 

 c and g, we do not see that we may not be permitted to retain these sounds. 



C then is hard, like k, before a consonant or a, o, ti, soft before e, i, y, and before 

 the diphtliongs ce, ai, oe, oi. ch is always hard ; there is no sound of ch as in church, 

 still less as in chaise, in Latin. 



G is hard or soft under the same circumstances as c, with the important excep- 

 tion, that it is hard before y in words derived from the Greek, when the y 

 results from the Greek upsilon (v). Example: Gymnocitta, not Jymnocilta. 



J is simply t, interchangeable with it, and always pronounced like the y in yes, or 

 as in hallelujah. 



