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48. Rule 1 excludes that false notation which has arisen from inability to analyze sounds. 
Several Enelish orthoepists regard oy as compound, because they can detect its vowel or 
initial in other places, who suppose 7 (eye) to be simple, because they cannot get quite 
the same initial vowel in other places. 
49. One letter for two sounds being unphilosophic, there can be no rule to restrict such a 
license, and where the Italian fancies there is a necessity for a ¢s and a ¢sh character re- 
spectively, the Albanian with equal propriety, may ask for their reversals st and sht. 
50. There is no scientific reason for writing kinn in German, and k,in-or c’in for chin in 
English (§ 21, &c.,) because dzh tsh are not always due to gutturals, as in Italian gioglio 
(LOLIU™,) giglio (LILIU™,) girafjw, concistorio, cinghiale, ciocciare; checkmate, charivart, chap- 
aral. Cay may also become s or English z, as in despiCable, despiSe; and if g, or g’ is to 
have the corrupt power in g,em because it is often derived from gay (from any guttural, 
or from /,) shall we spell jealous with it? or with a marked 2? because it is from zealous, 
and in fact, English z and j are more nearly allied than pure and corrupt ¢. 
51. But cay and tshee, gay and dzhee, have no analogy, still less have they affinity. “ Hn 
histoire naturelle, rien n’est plus trompeur que les analogies,” says Cuvier. It is true 
that cay may become tshee,—any guttural may become any dental or palatal, (as y be- 
comes sin surgeon,) but if they were allied, tshee would readily become cay, when some would 
deem it necessary to indicate a cay thus derived, by an underived tshee character. Com- 
pare HARESIS with Sp. heregia. A prognathic African will convert wreath into reef, but 
not the reverse, § 301. Here there is analogy but not affinity between f and th. Stones 
roll from mountains into valleys, yet this is no proof that valleys are a kind of mountains. 
An immersed cork will rise, but not because it has an affinity with surface water. 
52. Those who wish a tshee sound to be represented by a guttural basis, are inconsistent, 
having failed to provide one (as y’) for sh in forms like chamois (from gems,) sherry (Xeres;) 
Fr. machine, chambre, chien, chou; It. scimia (SIMIA) vescica (VESICA;) or Fr. J, in joug, jour, 
jeune, manger, cage (CAVKA,) orge (HoRDKu”;) and a different one to indicate the common 
change from sh (through ss) to sk in skiff, ship, which is fully as important as that from 
g pure to g corrupt. Nor are the most important and characteristic mutations of Russian 
and Polish, of Welsh and Ivish, or of Greek (#o:1%, xe/Zw; Ger. fraG-en, g¢¢Zw,) deemed 
worthy of special notation. 
53. The use of the same base letter for game and gem, and for car and chariot, to accom- 
modate Sanscrit and other languages, really contradicts the principles of Sanscrit ortho- 
graphy, which does not acknowledge any affinity between these gutturals and palatals, as 
(using Eichhoff’s orthography) in AG, or AJ’, (to move.) ichhofl’s roots 268, KAKH (to 
ery, to laugh,) 244, s’aKs (to ery, to laugh,) 267, KAc’ (to resound, to laugh,) and 211, 
