346 ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
both, (like Wilkins, Hale, and Hart,) a sign made of b—and d, p, q, would afford allied 
ones. For common typography, we propose n, 0, with ev (closed) as the writing form of 
a or its varieties. 
© in odd. 
405. This differs from the preceding in being formed with less aperture. It is short in 
not, nod, hod, what, squatter (cf. the open water,) morrow, borrow, sorrow, horror, choice, 
ponder, throng, prong; medial in on, yon, John, God, rod, gone, aught, thought, bought, 
caught, naught, fought, sauce, loiter, boy, and perhaps long in coy, oil. Some of these 
medials may belong to awe, and some of those to this head. 
406. The accuracy of these examples is not expected to be admitted in detail, because 
practice between the two vowels is not uniform; yet it is probable that no one puts the 
vowel of potter or the quantity of fall, in water, which is neither wawter nor wotter. In 
the following table, the medial examples have been chosen without regard to the vowel 
they contain. 
eaud God nod enawr nor Nor’ich 
awe or orange rawed rod Rodney 
fawned fond astonish awed aught odd 
thawed thought Thoth laws loss lozenge 
407. In the next table, No. 1 is the long, 2 the short, and 3 the medial quantity of awe; 
4 is the medial and 5 the short quantity of odd. 
1. pawned waw squaw yawn haw 
2. author water squash want horse 
3. pond war swan wan ho*’rn 
4. ro'd Go'd thou’ght go’ne John 
5. ponder body squat honest horror 
408. Indications of quantity cannot be dispensed with here. , (or whatever character 
is used) might stand for the vowel of odd, and have a widened form, or a superior dot 
(-) after the letter, for its medials; whilst o (or its representative) might be considered 
medial, and have a long mark for awe, since the medials of the close vowel, and the longs 
of the open one are the rarest. 
409. It is a difficult problem to supply awe and odd with suitable characters. They 
have no more right to be formed on an ‘O” than on an ‘A’ basis, and the available forms 
of «O’ should not be drawn upon too largely for English, being required for French o, the 
two Italian kinds, and perhaps others among described or undetected phases. a. 9, O, or 
n, a, would form a good pair, and they recall A, O, but o is perhaps too much like n for 
blurred print. ‘The preceding, with 0, are not sufficiently alike, because the medial 
