346 Mr, PicJcering on the Orthography of the 



country and wlio write it Kamtschatha^ (with schj we naturally 

 prononnce the letters sch like sic, according to the general analogy 



of our own language.* Our sh, then, being more simple in itself 



than the German sc/i, yet sufficiently near to that as well as to the 

 FrcDch chj to indicate its power in most cases, and being also an 

 unusual combination in the European languages, would be free 

 from the ambiguity attending the German sch, and not so likely 

 to mislead readers of different nations. 



The corresponding fiat sound to sh, that is, our s in the word 

 'pleasure (or j in French,) may be denoted hyf zh, as will be 

 noticed under the letter Z.f 



T ; TH ^ TS and TZ ; TSH. 



The letter T, when single, will have its common power. It 

 will also be used in the three followins; combinations • 



The first of them, th, is always called in foreign grammars 

 the English TIT, and is now well understood and used by the 

 nations of Europe, when they wish to express that sharp lisping 

 sound which it has in our word thin, thicJc, &c. and which is 



name in the Russian language (as Mr. Du Ponceau observes) is writ- 



* This 



ICamshf 



tenKaMiij^amKa 



We ought, therefore, 

 which, if ^ve follow the Russian letters, would ia spelh^ng be divided thus', 

 JCam.shfshatka i but to make it more intelligible in English, we might write and 

 divide thus, Kamsh.chatka. In our pronunciation, however, this is generally 

 softened either into Kams-tshatka, or Kam-tslmtka. 



t There would be a convenience in having these compounded characters, 

 ^h, zk and others, printed in one character, as our sh ^hv^ys used to be ; and 

 .f new types are n^ade, it may be well to attend to this point; In our own and 



other languages, however, no great inconvenience is felt from the use of separate 



letters. 



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