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. In Devonshire, turnip is turmit.* This is not an example of a change from n to m. 
. The word pigeon is spelt with a silent g. 
“I OG Or 
. The assimilation of ad to af before / in AFFINITAS, is not present in affinity. 
o) 
. As English allows a word to be spelt like its cognate in some other language, (writing 
pSAIM, with its t/uee elements, as if it were the Belgian PSALM, with jive,) the paradox 
of an entire English line thus written, is presented in § 14, the line being— 
2 
“Heart, my heart, Oh why this sadness 
9. The muskrat is a rat-shaped rod-ent with a strong scent of musk; yet it was not 
named from its musky odor. 
10. Port Tobacco in Maryland is a port at which tobacco is shipped, yet port and fo- 
bacco had nothing to do with the original naming of the town. 
CHAPTER II. 
BASIS AND RULES OF NOTATION. 
When a science is imperfectly developed, or founded on a false theory, it is sure to find itself in difficulties and restric- 
tions, which form a stumbling-block to the student, and frequently cause its rejection altogether.— W. G. Herdman, Art 
Journal, 1849, p. 330. 
The complete alphabet must not contradict the Latin parent alphabet; that is, every Latin letter adopted into the com- 
plete Slavonic alphabet, must have no other than its Latin power, Latin being, as it were, the universal language.— Pok- 
lukar, Ankiindigung eines ... Universal- oder Welt- Alphabetes. Laibach, 1851. 
None but Latin letters are to be admitted into the universal alphabet.— Max Miiller’s Languages of the Seat of War, 
London, 1855, p. 54. .... with a due regard to the primitive power of the Roman alphabet.—Sir W. Jones. 
Finding the statements respecting the Latin alphabet to a certain extent contradictory and unsatisfactory, I resolved to 
investigate it, with the intention of using it strictly according to its Latin significgtion, as far as this could be ascertained. 
Haldeman, Latin Pronunciation, Philadelphia, 1857. 
§ 42. Although the Roman alphabet has been extensively used as a basis of notation, the 
Russian occupies a wide space, not only for the Slavonic languages which employ it in a 
modified form; but it constitutes one of the alphabets of Wallachian, and is extensively 
used by the Russian philologists for the various languages investigated by them—but not 
exclusively, for Castren uses the Roman alphabet for Samoiedic, and Poklukar (apparently 
an Illyrian) recommends it for the Slavonic languages. Duponceau (Am. Phil. Trans. Vol. 
I., New Series, 1817, p. 264,) recommended the “small Greek alphabet” (excluding capi- 
tals) for general purposes, with additions from the Russian. 
* Palmer’s Devonshire Dialect, 1857, p. 91, mentioned also in George Jackson’s Popular Errors in English 
Grammar, 1830, p. 24. This curious form has been developed spontaneously and independently by two children 
when learning to speak, in a locality where the existence of such a sound was unknown. 
