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343 Mr. Pickering on the Orthography of the 



The combination Ich is to be preferred to ch, because the latter 

 would be ambiguous to Europeans in general, as well as to our- 

 selves ; for though the Germans would give ch the intended 

 guttural sound, a Frenchman would pronounce it like our sh, and 

 we should ourselves be in doubt whether to pronounce it like tsh 



like k ; wliile a Spaniard would dve it the sound of tsh, and 



Italian, the common unaspirated sound of k. 

 Ks will be necessary, to denote the sharjp sound which x h 

 the word exercise and many others. 



L ; and LY or LT. 



The letter L, whether single or double^ may retain its usual 



power 



Ly or Li may be found useful, to express the liquid sound of 

 L, as it is called, which is heard in the foreign words seraglio, 

 intaglio, &c. and is observable in our English word steelyard 

 and some others ; which, if we divide thus, stee-lyard, the last 

 syllable will give us this common foreign sound with the greatest 

 exactness. The French express the same sound by II after i; 

 the Italians, by ^Z before i ; the Spaniards, by //, and the Por- 



by Ih, But either ly or li will, I think, be attended 



with fewer difficulties in practice, than any of the combinations 

 above mentioned, in a system of orthography which is to be used 

 in common by several European nations and ourselves : and 



of these two, li and ly, we should ourselves in most cases, 

 pecially at ;the beginning of a word, give the preference to 



of indiffe 



deed 



ly ; though to foreigners, it would 



which of them should be adopted. It may be thought 



that there is no necessity for both of them ; and, strictly speaking^ 



perhaps, there is not any more than there is for retaining both of 



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