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10. Sir W. Jones, and Wilson's plan of the circumflex, 

 will first be considered ; 1st, where it is initial in a syllable ; 

 take the following examples : — 



Wilson and Jones. 



&mm 

 .< •; ? jj* izzat 

 ^ id 



11. It is contrary to all usage to write anything above 

 the place where a letter is to come, before writing the letter 

 itself ; and if the circumflex is used to represent the reader 



is required to suppose in cases like drzi and izzat, that the 

 circumflex was written before the subjacent letter. 



12. Again where the ^is not initial. 



Wilson and Jones. 



jUltl itibar 

 , ° \ dawa 



J^jc* mamul 



13. In all these cases, the ^has no vowel mark over 

 or under it, but on the contrary, a jazm, in order to shew that 

 it is quiescent. In these cases what vowel can the circumflex 

 be 'circum' to, seeing that there is no vowel in the original 

 syllable ? i^tibar, da^wd, mcCmul, would be the only consis- 

 tent method, if ^= but then the circumflex would be over 

 nothing ! To place it over the preceding vowel, is to put it 

 into a syllable to which it does not belong. 



14. Again the circumflex over a vowel, is (as stated in 

 para. 7), apt to mislead ; for it would be supposed that by it 

 the vowel was made broad, as in the French fete. Thus 



