274 ; ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
cue’ (to cry, lament,) are essentially the same root; and if the Hindoos are willing to spell 
corrupt dzh, tsh, differently from pure gay, cay, we should not insist upon spelling them 
on the same basis. i 
54. Many find it difficult to believe that numerous Latin and Greek words are older than 
Sanscrit; so the scholars of our day have formed a fictitious Sanscrit, as formerly a digam- 
mated Greek was formed, because it was the fashion to believe Greek older than Latin, 
otc older than Ovis, and the Sanscrit root ¢shad or tshand (to shine) older than Latin 
eandéo. Admitting the root cad or cand in some antecedent of Sanscrit, this does not 
give age enough; forms like nd not being original. This cand is probably older than cad, 
where d has absorbed the m, and newer than the probable true root CAN, from the » of 
which the d of cand was educed. 
RULE 2. 
55. No letter should represent more than one sound.—Latham, Lepsius.—Hence, if ¢ is 
proper in ¢ap, and h in hat, th cannot be used as in that, three. 
RULE 3. 
56. Sounds made by one contact of the organs of speech, are not to be represented by a letter 
made to represent a sound belonging to a different contact. 
56 a. Hence, a pointed d, ¢, cannot be used for th in then, thin; a pointed s for sh, which 
is often derived from a guttural, or from sc; a pointed c for the ¢, &c., in tip, sip, tsip, ship, 
tship. In all these cases this rule would be broken, for ¢h is not the aspirate of ¢ in the 
sense that Welsh rh, ch, (German ch,) are aspirates of r and cay. Th and s have equal 
claims to be considered the aspirate of ¢, s being as near the ¢ position posteriorly, as th 
anteriorly. 
57. Mr. Hale in the Philology of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, assigns Latin (J) yea 
to French y, a corruption which shows little respect for the purity of Latin, and which 
would tend to barbarise it, to the extent of its adoption. 
58. Sh is in no sense an aspirate of s, and as it is perhaps more often derived from a 
guttural than from s or ¢, it is a great error to represent it by a marked s. Indeed, it 
would be more proper to represent s by an sh character. Several English alphabets have 
an sh character made to recall this combination, which is as absurd as to let fin spell 
thin, because it is allowing an aspirate sound belonging to one contact, to be represented 
by marking as aspirate, a known aspirate of the adjoining contact. 
Rute 4. 
59. The group of letters representing a distinct word is to be separated by spacing from 
preceding and succeeding groups, and the order of Latin typography is to be preserved. 
