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1306. ] Pronunciatory Index to Vowels and Diphthengs. 
PONE 4 
Silent. _ Lengthening. ; 
————EEE Gio em pe 
A head, AMCs se eeeeeeeevececeee eat, oak. 
E heart, hetght, fieve, yeoman, have, Breaty cc], Giles) 10ee end, Tiek, / 
/ dyes, bale, cede, inde note, { 
Tecidloubene vic pane ner dofe rule oe a 
4 4 > ry 
J rallery; trend leiire. ........ vain, mien, deceit, fruit, 
oO ‘ ad people, touch...) a gaol, join, door, youth. 
aulage ? gauging, aunt, guard, 
u } build, buoy, “buy. ai lae lee as te 
fword, two, knowledge, wrong, 
ny bo ee PRI WET) sak oS caa Reha 
yy vel = © o& Ceisjenme ontisly soe oe lays, keys. 
i It rhymes with paffage in a feng in the 
farce of ** The Farmer,”” but I do not 
give this as an authority. I rely more 
upon every one’s own ear, 
} Giam, a preferve of fruit ; now fpelt 
jam inthe diftionaries. Gut the for- 
mer is the orthography in old books of 
cockery ; and might poffibly lead to 
the derivation, in which the diction- 
aries are deficient. 
I} Qu, alfo ¢errier ? Tt fete to have 
that found in converfation. Johnfon 
indeed gives alfo the orthography tar- 
rier from Dryden; but this fpeliing if 
rightly confidered, being totally againft 
the derivation, will perhaps only fix 
the fa of the pronunciation upon the 
true orthography, and the charge of 
corruptnefs wupon itfelf. See allo be-— 
_ Jow, note + on column VIII. as ex. 
" aéily analoyous. 
q Perry. 
Column V1. 
* Sometimes :” Perry. So lac? 
+ ‘Lands he could meafure, terms 
tides prefage, 
And ev’n the ftory ran that he could gauge."” 
GoLDsMITH. 
+ This found feems to be purely French, 
as in reconnoztre: yet in converfation, 
I believe, Croydon, the name of a 
market-town in Surry, is fometimes 
proneunced fo. 
} The name of a Scotch fitire. 
Column IV. 
* 6¢ When a man_ has 
whereby to get a penny, 
He has no Jia cialis nor ever can have 
any, 
And charity’ snot us’d by many.”’—Old Song. 
£¢ In Liquorpond-ftreet, as is well known 
Co many, 
An artift refided who fhav’d fora penny.” 
Salmagundi. 
‘Phe Saxen original of mazy has twenty 
ane 
no employment * 
different orthographies, fixteen of which 
are with eor @: fee Johnion’s Didticn. 
ary, in voc.-—This is alfo the found of 
Thames, and pallmall (a game), Perry ; 
and of this lait word as the name of a 
ftreet. “There are f{cyeral words thae 
have at leaft a tendency to this pronan- 
ciation in difcourfe; as canal, catch, 
gather, and radijb. . 1 remember only 
one example frem poetry : 
‘© To guard off the wind that hard by the 
foot gathers, 
He told me fhe paper’d her front reans witha 
feathers.."—-Captain Morais. 
‘© Shut, fhut the door, good Joha, fae 
tigu’d I aid : 
Tie up the knocker; fay, I’m fick, Vm 
dead.’—PoP er. 
This found is extremely commen in 
postry. . 
4 YI do not remember an example of 
this; but it feems to be warranted by 
converfation, and ba ie) parallel to 
faid (in the next preceding note), 
t Take, friends, I befeech you, a little mere 
_ heifure 5 
For why thould we thus make atoll of a 
pleafurei-Epigram, Elegant Extracts. 
So alfo Leicefter. 
|| Be hold fir Balaam, now a man of Spirit 
-Afcribes his gétrings to his parts and merit? 
Popes. 
‘¢ O lyre divine! What daring “/pirit 
Wakes thee now? ‘Fhough he inbeyit,’’ &e. 
GRAY. 
This is certainly the exac&t provuncia- 
tion of girl, which I have not feen ade« 
quately exprefled in any dictionary, 
Columa V. 
a final in poetry, fometimes: 
«6 Hafte thee nymph 3 and bring with thee 
Jeft and youthful’ jollity.”"—-Mit ron. 
Column VI. 
# 6 An appellation of Feipect johnfon 
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