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V. A "Letter from John Byrom M. A. and 
F. R. S. to the Prelident, containing fomz 
Remarks on Mr, Lodwick’.? Alphabet. 
Honoured Sir , 
Read jun e 30. T* T AVING, by your Permiflion, bor- 
I748 ' O row ' d N °- 182. of the Tranf 
actions, wherein is contained An Ejfay towards an 
Univerfal Alphabet, by Mr, Francis Lodwick F.R.S, 
I fhall give a brief Account of it ; and, in Obedi- 
ence to your Commands at the laft Meeting, endea- 
vour to fhew how it may be reduced into lefs Com- 
pafs, and fet in a plainer Light. 
Mr. Lodwick premifes firft the Advantages of 
fuch an Alphabet } which I may as well refer to as 
repeat j they all center in acquiring, deferibing, or 
perpetuating the true Sounds of any Language, by a 
Standard Character for all. 
He then defines what a fingle Sound, what a com- 
pounded one, a Vowel, Confonant, Diphthong, 
and Triphthong is; all which is likewife fufficiently 
obvious, and needs no Repetition. 
To proceed direCtly, therefore, to his Alphabet, 
or Collection of all the fingle Vowels or Confo- 
nants which are ufed in any Language, the Number 
of Vowels is, according to him, 14, which are, all 
but 3, expreffed in Englijh Words in the follow- 
ing Table. 
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