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l/r. Piclcerins on the Pronunciation 



.b 



first word is written witb 



MEr TAP 



Now this, unless I am 



taken, is a manifest proof 



'yuf/.y.ci had retained the sound of the yy, altljough it might be 



pronounced somewhat 



d 



pronounce 



the words an^elus, anchora ; in doing which the tongue does not 



roof 



If 



N would not be so easilj^ substituted for the T by the 



transcribers.'^ 



A. 



r 



The letter ^ has the sound, which Walker calls in English 



ihejlat sound 



thenj which may be express 



of the Modern 

 This approachf 



as to sound, by the negative parti 

 a corruption of the ancient word 



^ 



sv 



Oh 



I 



modern lansiuaaies, that 



d of the letter D 



troversy. It must, doubtless, be defended, 

 ground of itsa^e ; which, one would think, should b 



decisive in the case of this, as of its kindred 

 has been acquiesced in by the learned 



up. 

 5 as 



w 



theta, which 



E. 



The 



S 



sound of this letter, which is that of e in the Europ 

 5 generally, is the same. snh^t»ntuu.r „,:n, _... 



the 



ord th 



This 



bstantially, with 



our e in 



pronunciation of g is universally consid 



ered to be the same with that of the ancient Greeks 



