246 On writing Oriental ivords [No. 10, new series. 



MEMORANDA. 



I have looked through Mr. Bayley's objections to the Sub-Com- 

 mittee's Report, and am glad to find that I am able to concur in 

 almost all of them. In some instances I have to plead omission 

 and want of sufficient perspicuity on my own part as having led 

 Mr. B. into error regarding my intention, in others he has over- 

 looked my meaning, but on the whole we substantially agree, and 

 had the draught report received the benefit of his supervision, it 

 would, I am sure, have appeared in a more perfect shape and been 

 free from the objections he has pointed out. 



These I will notice seriatum : 



1. With regard to the long e and o, I certainly never intended 

 that they should not be distinguished from the short sounds of the 

 same vowels, and I never fail to note them with the accentual 

 mark in practice. I see, however, that these marks are omitted 

 in the tabular scheme at page 9, they should be added in the re- 

 vised report, and the following sentence should be added after the 

 words " is required for them," at page 12, viz. " the long sounds 

 being distinguished by the usual accentual mark." 



2. In taking 's to represent both and ^ I was guided by 



Sir W. Jones, but I am free to admit that the sounds do differ, 

 and I acquiesce with pleasure in Mr. Bayley's emendation of ren- 

 dering i~{ by 's or perhaps better by s as being an anomalous 

 sound, and as being less liable to be confounded with the long 

 vowel sound, and more in accordance with the general principle 

 of the scheme. 



3. I also bow to Mr. Bayley's judgment with regard to the di- 

 verse sounds of the same Tamil letter. His argument derived from 

 the difficulty in which persons unacquainted with Tamil would 

 find themselves has much force. With regard to the initial <jr 

 I prefer the employment of " ch" to that of s. The former has 

 the sanction of Dr. Caldwell and is most in accordance with gene- 

 ral use. In the event of substituting " c or 9" for " ch" in the 

 Sanskrit alphabet, the same expedient should be followed here. 



4. With regard to the use of " x" for " ksh," this point was 

 discussed and forms one of the articles agreed to and recorded in 

 the Memo, drawn up the day before Mr. Bayley sailed. Mr. Bay- 



