Dilkes ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
43. The Latin alphabet is adopted in these pages, after considerable practice with other 
modes of writing, and letters are recommended which have not been used in collecting ex- 
amples from native sources; so that nothing is recommended because it was familiar, or in 
use in the vernacular of the writer. The object in view has been to subserve the cause of 
science, from a scientific basis. 
44, The Latin alphabet is very ancient, its power can be ascertained better than French, 
when this is investigated from books alone, and it runs parallel with Sanscrit, Greek, and 
the archaic portions of English. As long as Latin was studied for its literature, its pro- 
nunciation was of secondary importance. Now that it is to be quoted, not only to solve 
the deepest problems, but to give to school-boys an idea of the steps in the formation of a 
vernacular word,—it has become necessary to lay aside the conventional pronunciation, 
at least when lessons in the genuine principles of etymology are given. 
45. Ten years hence, every pupil in a grammar school may know that he cannot derive 
an English word with a cay power, from a Latin one with a letter called see, (as canker 
from cancér, or sickle from sicilis;) nor pervert Latin céra (wax) in one direction to enable 
him to derive cerate; or valla™ in another, to remove it from wall, the initial of vallu”, 
Sanserit val&, and 2all, and of céra and Irish ceir (wax, with &) being identic.* 
46. Yet the bigotry of a false education is such, that for a few years it will be as difficult to 
convince school teachers, that an identic syllable is used in the English (e)lide, the Ger- 
man leid (an injury,) and the Latin LAD(-o, I injure,) as it is to convince them that 
letters called jee, e, double-you, dzhee, a, double-you, cannot (literally call out, name, or) spell 
“oew-gaw.” 
Rute 1. 
47. Every simple sound or element should have a single letter to represent it.—Max Muller, 
Latham, Lepsius, Rush, Matushik.+ 
47 a. “This excludes the combinations ng, ch, th.” —Lepsius. It excludes Lepsius’ ‘p, &c., 
for p and h in haphazard, because he has already ap and an /; and g’ in gem, because he 
has d and French J; and it excludes German z, Latin x, Albanian ndzh, mb, nd, &e. 
* It appears from Prof. T. F. Richardson’s “ Roman Orthoepy,” New York, 1859, that he has taught this sub- 
ject in Rochester University for the last eight years, with the concurrence of the authorities. This institution has 
therefore the honor of taking the lead in Latin instruction, by rejecting the barbarous jargon which has hitherto 
usurped its name and place. Here we find J as in year, A is eye, and ©, G, arecay, gay. The learned Kraitsir 
has also done much for Latin in his “ Glossology,’’ New York, 1852. 
+ The same combination of sounds should, under the same circumstances, be always represented by the same 
combinations of symbols, and conversely. . . . I consider also that contractions are admissible (a single letter for 
any combinations of frequency) provided they are always used in the same sense.—Wi/is, MS. 
