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esté this one,) it is not near as frequent as an Englishman might suppose. The following 
examples are from Vingut’s Spanish Grammar (New York, 1853,) with his pronunciation 
in English spelling—but we think that some of these have e. 
pareéntesis pa-rain-tai-sees tenedor tainaidor 
crisis _ creesees comodidad co-m6-dee-dad 
jeneral hai-nai-ral felicitar  faileetheetar 
médico mai-dee-co Asiatico Ah-see-ah-tee-co 
tres (Lat. TRES)  trais entre aintray 
frecuentamente _—_fraikwaintaimaintay pez (fish) paith. 
Nor has E become ¢ in French, where it might be expected from English Latin, as in 
élégant, éléphant, élegie, emetique, nécéssité, effacer, exact, et;—and for que, le, me, ne, 
de, cela, doucement, vivement,—Vadé puts que, mé, vivement, &c., in the mouth of a 
Gascon. 
386. The vowel ¢ occurs in Italian témpo, térra, Merctrid; in the German réchnung 
(a reckoning;) pelz (pelt, fur,) schmeltzen (to smelt,) rector (rector.) German short 4 
(c) often falls into this sound, as in prachtig (sumptuous.) In Ellenic, ¢ and a are alike, 
as in set, said. 
387. Frenchmen state that e occurs in elle, quel, régle; M. Value gives get as the key 
word for 6 and é; Bolmar gives mare for é, and there (when emphatic) for é; and Pantoléon 
puts e of there in est, les, vrai, mais, and that of ebd in elle, quelque, cher, superb, aime. 
He writes tw avais with the former, and @# avait with the latter, whilst Bolmar makes 
them both é. 
@, €, (6, €,) in there. 
388. The vowel of ebb, with a more open aperture, is long and accented in the Italian 
me dicd, temp esta, ciélo, and short in the verb e (is,) ab-biét-to. It is the French é in 
méme, téte, fenétre, maitre, haie, Aix (= es,) air, vaisseau. The same sound seems to 
occur shorter in trompette, which is not the vowel of petty. It occurs in the Coordish 
fecd (a pack on a horse,) with smooth r. Volney writes it ai; Lepsius, é (in “Fr. mere, 
Ger. bar;”) Comstock a good character (§ 398,) but he considers it the representative of a 
double sound, as in thé-ur for there. 
389. It is the German & long in mahre (mare,) mihrchen, fehlen, kehle, wahre, but 
wehre has Klong. The theoretic short sound (¢) falls into e, as in stalle (stalls,) commonly 
pronounced like stelle (station.) In German, the letters a, 6, U, are sometimes more 
correctly printed with a minute (°) instead of the dots, and Zieman* has restricted the 
dotted characters to the short sounds, and the others to the long ones. 
* Mittelhochdeutsches Wérterbuch, 1838. 
