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perplex the Matter by unintelligible Niceties, and 
hinder the Prolpcd of an univerfal Alphabet, by 
Teeming Impoflibilities of arriving at it. 
T and fV, which conftitute Mr. Lodwick’s 9 th and 
11 th File of Confonanrs, are equal to the Vowels 
ee and 00 : His two 'Dutch Confonants may have 
their Place in the 5 th Rank above -mention'd. 
So that omitting fuch of his 29 as ought, if thefe 
Obfervations are juft, to be omitted, there will re- 
main the 20 that are here digefted into 5 Files and 
4 Ranks, for the real Alphabet of Confonants in 
the Englijh Language ; together with the H , which 
whether it may be reckon’d one or not, I fhall leave 
to the Grammarians. 
The y Files, for an Aftiftance to the Memory, 
may by the Help of intermediate Vowels, be com- 
pris’d in y technical Words of an hexameter Verfe, 
fuch as, 
PaSTiKa, BoZDaGo, MeRLiN, FiShThoChe, VeZhaDbJo. 
And the 4 Ranks, as they begin with the Letters 
P, S , T , AT, may, for the fame Reafon, be called 
\ Frirna , Secunda , Tertia y Ouarta, (=Knarfa) Claflis. 
Thefe 20 Confonants may appear to be too few? 
but I much queftion whether the real Alphabet of 
any Language has cither more in Number, or better 
- fitted for the Purpofes of Speech than this of ours : 
The Difference lies chiefly in the Gutturals, which 
the Orientals , Weljh, Germans , &c. pronounce dif- 
ferently from us. 
Our Neighbours the French (which is very re- 
markable) few as thefe 20 arc, have but 16 of 
H h h them 
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