1 
b, 
é. 
d. 
Oa 
Oh 
Notes on the preceding Table. 
Thefe inteiruptions in the numerical 
order are made from its having been 
found that by the arrangement now 
adopted, the Table can be comprifed 
in Jefs room than otherwife. Any per- 
{on who fhould take the trouble to draw 
out the Table on its proper fcale (which 
might be done as a matter of curiofity, 
and-to preferve for the purpofe of filiing 
{uch of its vacant places as further dif- 
covery might fuggeft the means of 
doing) muft preferve ftritly the regu- 
Yar feries, which would fomewhat fim- 
plify it in appearance. 
This intermediate column contains the 
numerical omiflions in the firft two on 
the left. 
That is, confonantal in thefe two 
founds. They are undoubtedly pure 
vowels in many inftances ; and are only 
omitted among the vowels and diph- 
thongs on this line, from having in that - 
capacity no found but what is (perhaps 
more imply) expretfed by other vow- 
e's. 
: Treje&ted able as a fpecimen here en 
account. of the final e; of which in 
molt cafes it feems hardly pofiible to 
determine pofitively the effect on pre- 
ceding vowcis, otvaccount of its length- 
ening quality (fee below, note + on 
eljumn I) I have therefore through- 
out the Table uied every means to 
avoid it, by adding ans, &c. as the 
reader will perceive: but this was not 
always practicable, 
Thefe two founds feem to be de‘ermin- 
ed by the prior confonant. I prefer 
that which is here placed fir#, in all 
cafes where it is pofible. 
. Infances of this fort are not joined to 
identify them, but 
room, 
The purpofe of this line may require 
ome explanation. -No letier certainly 
has fo ftrong a claim to the appellation 
ot femivowel as ¢, or combines with a 
vowel fo eaiily : final after a and 9, it 
produces on chem no change from the 
founds exprefled by thofe vowels them- 
feives in axt and of. The prefent me- 
thod theretore is adopted to fhew its 
effects in conju Gtion with the feveral 
vowels and diphthongs ; aud in each 
merely to fave 
2°  Pronunciatory Index to Vowels and Diphthongs. 
[Feb. 1, 
cafe the variations alfo by which the 
fame found is produced, purfuant to the 
great purpofe of this Table. But, for the 
fake of contrat and illufration, its con- 
junctions with them in its’ perfectly 
confonantal capacity are likewile admit- 
ted; as in the columns I., 1V., VI., 
VIIT., XI. (firt), XVII.; and in 
thefe particularly 1 have been ftudious 
to keep the ~ fingle as often as poffible. 
. Ue after g fometimes makes another 
fyllable, as in ague ; fometimes merely 
lengthens the fyllable, as in vague; andi 
fometimes has neither of thefe effects, <s 
in prologue (Perry ; and, from Dryden, 
‘* Hold! Are you mad, you damn’d con- 
founded dog ? 
Iam to rife, and fpeak the epilogue’). 
m, See note t.on column IX. below. 
The only variation in the prefent cafe 
is anomalous, and cannot be intro-. 
duced among the examples. in the Ta-. 
ble, as it includes the found of a con- 
fonant. It is lzeutenant, which Perry 
expreffes livtenant. 
Column 1. 
* So thre/h, if that is the right orthography. 
The reference (32) here and elfewhere 
points to the divifion of the 32nd line 
in the fame column ; and is meant to 
indicate the effect of the combination 
of y in fuch founds with the vowels 
~ placed at the left extremity of the re- 
{pective lines, as explained above in the 
note &, 
+ Perry’s of&tavo Synonimous Diétionary, 
lately publifhed.- Ia the prefent and 
fubfequent examples where this book is 
referred to, it is merely given as an au- 
thority for the fake of thofe readers 
who muft have an authority of fome 
fort.—-Once for all it may be here ob- 
ferved, that as poffibly fome perfons 
may abject to feveral of the words in- 
troduced under the different combina- 
tions, “ that they are only inftances in 
which one of the vowels is perfectly 
filent, or has merely the effect of length~- 
ening the other,” the following fketch 
will thew that every one of the vowels’ 
has both thefe powers at times; and 
each is here fhewn in as many variations 
as occurred to recollection, the exam- 
ples being purpofely extracted from the 
preceding Table as often as poffidle ; 
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