u 
t 
1806. } 
gives fyrep from Milton, in his exam- 
ples, and fyrup from Floyer under 
*s maltdrink ;’” and the y is ufed in me- 
dical books, ene believe in general. 
Frequently in this combination r has 
a ttrong tendency to total filence, as in 
the following example : 
‘© OF modeft poets be thou juf 5 
To filent fhades repeat thy verfe 
Till fame and echo almoft durf.°—SwirFt. 
This feems very common in converfa- 
tion, and is found equally in the pa- 
rallel combinations of zr and he as In 
curfe, curft, firft, worfe, wor 
Colonel ( kurnel,” Perry), snoensleus. 
Column VIL. 
See note * on column [. 
Cauliflower has certainly this found in 
difcourfe. Jchofon, it is true, gives 
alfo an orthogiaphy coliflower; but 
this is entirely at variance with the ety- 
mology, and ferves in fact to eftablith 
the pronunciation here affigned. See 
alfo above, note { on column f. 
Qu: oatmeal, in converfation? 
Perry...) Allo : 
‘© When now, mature in claffic know/ledee, 
The hopeful. youth returns from college.” 
f Progrefs of Difcontent. 
Perry. 
Column IX. 
In the furname of Bolcawen. 
This fcund indeed is purely French; 
that which. follows | however, in MITT, 
29, is not; and it is only for the con- 
traft that the prefent is introduced. 
Perry. 
Perry. Corrupted to /hore: ibid. and 
Johnion. It has obtained its prefent 
found by the fame modification of the 
Initial contonant as takes place in the 
pronunciation cf fure. See al’o notes 
jj oncol. VII., and £ onco}. XU, 
Column X, 
Perry gives this prononciction, in 
which the @ and a are to be confidered 
as of one fyllable. 
, Column XV. 
What differ more, you cry, than crown 
and cowl 2 
Pil tell. you, friend: a wife man and a 
fool.’—Porr. 
Qu: alfo enow ? 
Jchnfon has not given ine word in his 
alphabetical order; I fuppote, on the 
ground of its not being Enolifh, He 
has ufed 1 howevir, and »ith 
(which is the common) orihographby, 
In his expianatiim of ‘* carack.”” 
That is, tu; ppeling if 5 pronounced with- 
out the found of y be ween ‘tne J and Uu, 
but as the lyllable rare would be. I 
this. 
Pronunciatory Index to Vowels and Dipththongs. 
t 
a 
15 
! 
did not remember a word exactly fuit- 
ed to my purpofe here. See the note g 
above, the inftance XII. 17, and be- 
low, the fecond pote on the next columns 
So your, abftracting the confonantal y. 
Column XIII. 
See the note m above. 
‘+ This isthe only word that oceuks to me 
in which the liquid found of wz (as yz) 
cannot be cantroverted: which, as 
well as the liguid found of w after a 
confonant, I confefs that I am inclined 
to do as often as it can be done that is, 
to make a ftand for the words in which 
it is not generally adopted. 
1 Asa monofyllable ; in ‘which view it 
% 
ay 
¥ 
i 
AU 
% 
feeins that it may be as well confidered 
when pea with ewe (XHI. 17), 
as your eis from you. Even MASOT 5 
ie ere the y has a much flronger fepa- 
ting vowel before it, is fear cely dik 
Ne from mare. See above, 
the note |j on column VII. ; and { on 
column LX., with the word to which 
the latter refers. 
Column XIV. 
‘¢ The queen, fo gracious, wife, and good, 
Cries > 1s he gone? “tis time he howd” 
Swir Ta. 
So Worcefter. 1 have not met any word 
in which w before r has the found ne« 
ceiliry here for the foectmen. 
-Columu XVIS 
Perry. 
Macleod, a Scotch farname. 
“© A beat (wrus, Latin): Perry. 
alfo: 
‘* Reafon itfelf but gives it edge and pow’r, 
As heav’n’s bleft beam turns vinegar more 
eae 4 
S¢ 
OPE. 
See above, note.|| on column VII, 
Column KVi1. 
Chorifer (‘* quirilter,”’ Perry), one, 
ONCE, ANNO malous. 
tT I: ts certain, that ¢ is not cfentially 
powerlefs without an adjunét w: the 
French have paqure, in which the g and 
wareas diftiuct and fubfantial a cons 
fonant and vowel as any can be con- 
ceived. YLhus too in our liguor it 
~ founds while the z is mute, 
4 Confonanral (certainly not vocal, fee 
* 
fame fyliable as the 0. 
note d above) a! mute. 
Column XVILT. 
For the purpofe of thefe examples, the 
eand2 are to be confidered as of the 
The circum- 
fiance teo of tne fyllable in quettion 
being unaccented, appeared to me an Ine. 
ferior confideration in thefe inftances 
alone, as they are otherwife peculiarly 
proper ebjecis of this Table. 
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