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Mr. Pickering on the Orthograjfhj of the 



manifest advantage of great simplicity ; but on the other hand 



should be considered, that these points 



tremely subj 



being wholly overlooked or confounded with each other both 



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and printing ; and, in the science of mathematics, from 



which the leavued author borrows the 



fact 



those treatises on fluxi 



where this method is followed 



beyond all comparison more than those, in which 



the r 



notation by letters 



stead of points is adopted 



For this reason, therefore, marks of that kind should be used 

 sparingly as possible. We might, perhaps, conveniently enough 



dified vowel by placing a small letter 



Grerman lansruasre, where, for 



Pl 



owel 



has 



•w 



(which commonly has a sound like ah in English) if it 

 al^e over it (a) takes a sound like a in fate; and the vowel 



(6) loses its usual sound and takes one 

 eu. It is true, that the Grermans also 



a 







sembling the French 



re- 



points (th 



use 



denote these modifications 



have been 



long and so generally employed 



; but these 

 ancient and 



modern languages as a diceres 



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now to apply them to a new u: 



; 



lat it does not appear advisable 

 If points are employed at all, 



over the vowel 



it would be better to place them perpendicularly over 



(thus a) and not horizontally. But perhaps the most intellio-ibl 



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and least ambiguous notation would be found upon experiment 

 be, such as is adopted in the pronouncins dictionaries of our o^ 



tead 



; 



however, of 



language, that is, the common numerals ; in; 

 placing them over the letter, as is there done, it will be better to 



will be wanted for the 



place them under it j as the room above will 



• The learned De Sacy observes, too, that in .irabic (he 

 and the O (with three) are often confounded in the Manusc 

 Gram. vol. i, p. 18—19. 



(with two points) 

 ts. See his Arab, h 





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