55 
(Su) 
ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
with Latin ‘V;’ although, in each case, there is ample material for determining their na- 
ture. 
455. In assigning ‘V” to its proper power, we are giving a great advantage to Enelish 
over many other languages, where the sound has swerved into a sonant /; and in doing 
so we follow Hichhoff, who assigns the proper power to Latin ‘V’ and uses it for Sanscrit, 
as in Vast, Latin Vasto, Eng. > waste (=vust’) to destroy; Sanscrit Vid to discern; Latin 
Vidéo to perceive; Hnglish wit and e-vid-ent, where wit, -vid- are false spellings, wit having 
the right sound and the wrong letter, whilst the variation of sound in -vd- has not been 
accompanied by a change in spelling, according to Dr. Latham’s sixth rule—* That changes 
of speech be followed by corresponding changes of spelling.” 
456. Latin V has a surd aspirate in English wh, which is always followed by V way, as 
in when =v ven, which is not ven, as some suppose, nor is it hwen, as iden is not then. A 
character commencing with (") would be suitable for print; and for script, av with a 
break towards the left, in the descending stem. Unfortunately, this sound is departing. 
We heard wig for whig, the first time in July, 1848, and not unfrequently since. When 
this confusion is established between when wen; where were; which witch; wet whet; 
whey way; wheel weal; the language will have ceased to be a refined one.* The sound 
probably belongs to Welsh, provincial Danish, and ancient Greek. 
457. “V occurs in several Vesperian languages, and the whistle which Duponceau attri- 
butes to the lenape (Delaware) language, is this sound, as in “vté (heart, ndé, my heart,) 
“vtéhim (strawberries,;) with flat t. In the Wyandot (vondot,) salacvu (it burrows,) 
it occurs before a whispered vowel. Compare Penobscot nee vde'’s (six; vtau-ac (ear;) 
“vtauaaol'l (ears.) 
458. V.a nasal English w, occurs in the Penobscot word for seven,—temba;v,e's. It 
is No. 1 of the Scheme, § 193. The labial coalescent (§ 451, No. 11,) is nasalin Wyandot, 
as in 
népetar' au'rve hav, tsI + 1Gvavo t. 
the pine all winter is green. 
LABIO-DENTALS. 
F, f; 1, 5, (v,) English v. 
459. Sounds formed by the contact of the lower lip and upper teeth, of which F is the 
* «Not necessarily. . . . . In the south of England so few people say when, whig, that this is the harsh and 
unrefined, the provincial pronunciation. . .. . The sound wh is a dialectic pronunciation of khw in Welsh; and, 
indeed, it would appear that wh in English came from hw through kw.” —Ellis MS. note. 
+ A heart-shaped fruit, but in Wyandot they are called stars, from their bright appearance among the foliage. 
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