290- ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
139. O perhaps as in not. Compare the double Anglish forms mon and man, lond and 
land, sond and sand. 
140. S, r, doubtful; perhaps pure in some dialects, in others as in zeal, misery, a Somerset 
(zomerzet) and Devonshire form. 
141. P as in thin. The Greek 0, 0, may be subtituted, or ‘7. 
142. D,%, as in then. When this type is wanting, a may be substituted. The sonant 
and surd th were interchangeable to such an extent in the various dialects, that the let- 
ters of both fell into English th, with which Anglish words are often written without 
taking the difference into account.” 
143. p English w, and represented by both w and »v, but as the letter is a manuscript 
and italic form of Latin V, with the second line turned into the stem and as it has no 
connection with Germanic W, v is its proper representative. 
The following may be compared, in which the Gothic initial probably agrees with the others. 
Latin, Gothic, Anglish, English. 
VENTUS vinds pind wind =yind 
VELLUS vulla pul wool =vul 
VIDUA viduvo pidpa widow=Vvido 
VOLO viljan pyllan will =vul 
VERMIS vaurms porm worm =verm 
144. Dr. Bosworth virtually admits the necessity of measuring languages by the same 
alphabet—sounds by the same letters; but his use of W (where Diefenbach, Kaltschmidt, 
and others use V,) removes Anglish from Latin and gives it a forced and unreal resem- 
blance to German. On the other hand, some will have ‘cinn’ read like chin, to bring it 
down to the English level, by removing it from its cognates, the Belg. kin, Gothic kinnus, 
~ 
Greek yews, &. The Latin V is used in the next examples— 
Latin, Anglish, English. 
VAD-ERE vad-an wad-e =ved 
VOLV-ERE vealov-ian wallow =volo 
VAST-ARE vest-an wast-e =vest. 
145. Y, ¥, has its proper power of French uw, German i. The dot indicates nothing. 
It is not placed over the small 7. 146. cs is preferred to x, and cp to qu. 
147. In the change from Anglish to English, the derived language often retained old 
forms which were allowed to become corrupt in the original. The English wagon is older 
than the Anglish paen, (as if wine?) whence wain; and the modern rain is precisely the 
Anglish ‘ren,’ a corruption of ‘regn.’ 
*The English use of i for two sounds recalls the Greek double letters, which had different powers in different 
dialects; % being xs or %5; Y, 75, Bs,$s; and C, zd, sd. Without a similar reason, the Greeks would hardly have 
used such an unphilosophic mode of writing. 
+See Emman. Thesauri, Inscriptiones; Colonize Brandenb. 1671, p. 414, and many old books. 
