324 ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. 
CLAMARE (o cry chiamare lamar chamar 
PLUMBU™ lead pidmbo plomo chumbo 
PLORARE to lament... . llorar chorar 
PLAGA a blow plaga llaga chaga 
PLUVIA 70in plovére llover chover. 
306. A union of three vowels, as aie, or eia, is contrary to the genius of English and its 
antecedents, and when, by the elision of a consonant, three vowels are thus brought to- 
gether, and the intermediate one is I or K, it first becomes J, and then perhaps a palatal, 
as English or French jy. It is not, as we are commonly taught, the B of the Latin rabiés 
that becomes zh in the French rage, and dzh in the English rage, but the I. This is con- 
jirmed by the Rhaetian form rabgia, in which 7 indicates corrupt dzh. The supposable 
intermediate steps between Latin and French (the first and fourth column) are given here 
in Latin Letters, but abbreviare is not a classic word. 
abbréviaré ABRE..IAR ABREJAR a..brége’ > abridge 
DILUVIUM™ DILU..IU DILUJE < déluge deluge 
RABIES RA..IES RAJE rage > rage 
SALVIA SA.. ..IA SAJE >sauge * sage 
CAVEA CA..EA CAJE cage < cage 
SEPIA SE..IA SEJE séche cuttle-fish 
RUBEUS RU..EUS RUJE rouge ruddy 
Sp. gubia GU..IA GUJE gouge > gouge. 
If the elided B of rabiés had been D, rage &e. would have been examples of partial 
metallaxis (§ 312, 313,) the D tending to draw the J into the palatal contact. 
307. As sa..ia made French sauge (the plant sage) with a sonant ‘g’ due to the sonant 
lv of the original; and se..ia made séche with surd ‘ch’ due to surd p of the original, we 
may account for sonant zh in fusion, and the surd sh in mission. 
308. Although mission, nation, with sh, are derived from the French miss-i-o", na-ti-o", 
(wasio") with s; and fusion, with zh, from fusio" with z, there is no transmutation of s, ¢, 
z, to the English palatals, the French consonants being lost, whilst their influence remained. 
309. Those go upon a false assumption who think they are justified in using ¢ as an al- 
phabetic character for sh from the analogy of ocean. It is the e which is the real sh here; 
and the ¢ in notion has as little to do with the same sound, as the p of sepia in séche, or 
in the Old French pipion, which, as an English word, is pronounced pigeon,* as the Italian 
storion-e is pronounced sturgeon in English. 
* See Paradoxes 1 and 6, § 41 a. 
