384 ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
especially if dried entire, and mous in their cooked condition. The first line of the origi- 
nal stands— 
Nu ha n’ eich all mein Lebelang— 
where n’ seems to be a fulcrum to prevent the concurrence of two vowels. The 7 of ich 
( I) will be observed to be diphthongal, as in English; and, in fact, most of the shades of 
English pronunciation are present in the idiotic forms of German and its cognates. 
Da‘s hotsl mis. 
613. ni hd -n- aje al mej lébalar 
now have I all my life-long 
nAvt besers as hotsln  geéso, 
naught better as ‘hootsls’ eaten, 
‘bon ~@ tér en, het.. [het] da ‘ber Poor] aje erase, 
when (wann) I of-it none had, then were (subjuct.) I sick, 
‘bon ir ot rect [rect] ‘belt ‘béso 
if (wenn) you i! right would know. 
corapte mir..n on  savreravt 
grated carrot an’ saurkraut 
as AC noc @*) — gbas [épes] Giis 
is eke(auch) yet something (etwas) good 
doc Act -n- ajq@ dat cra” ‘bej navt 
though regard I that quite (gar) as naught, 
en ¢sa_ hotsl mis. 
an’ eat dried-fruit mush. 
FRENCH. 
614. The following table shows the discrepancy of opinion among the French, upon the 
value of their vowels when compared with English standards. The first column contains 
the French examples, and the others the words supposed to contain the English equivalents. 
Le Brethon, Bolmar, Vaiue, Picot, Pantoléon. 
patte pat fat add at oe 
pate pall arm far father arm 
bétte bet fate gate fate ale 
béte bear where get there dare 
hotte hot not no, nor nor, over 
hote hope more nor Bes Baa old 
615. The older alphabets are not worth quoting. In the Miscellaneous Works of Wm. 
Marsden, F. R. S., there is a paper On a Conventional Roman Alphabet, where 4 is pro- 
