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1206.] 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAD the pleafure of addreffing you 
on the roth ef Oober laft, ca ob- 
fervations on a paflage m Dionyfius Hali- 
carnaffenfis, which you have honoured me 
by inferting in your much-efteemed Mif- 
c.llany. On perufing the impreffion, 
I fee 2 few typographical errors : thgy are 
as under, 
Tn the fourtin line of the text from Dio- 
nyfius, inftead of * gowrsy,”” read redrov. 
In the feventh line, for * ta rese,”? read 
tx roars. In the laft line, inftead of 
66 ABrvavwy,” read Abyyaiwy. 
In the fecond line of the Latin verfion, 
inftead of ‘* Eupheletus,’” read ‘* Eupbi- 
detus.”” 
In page 3955 i eipavov' * read 
‘© Srigavov-’ And by the expreffion, 
“© Now Euphiletus fets off,” &c., under- 
ftand, ** Now the orator in defence of 
Euphiletus fets off,” &c. This laft I 
muff acknowledge as my own inaccuracy. 
If you will be fo good as to note the 
above corteétions in your next Numoer, 
you would oblige, Sir, yeur’s, &c. 
Liverpool; Dec. 92 18056 W. 
ot  epitane 
To the Editor of the Menthly Magazine. 
€6 May the true ufe of letters, as well as of 
men, 
“Hereafter be fix’d by the tongue and the pen! ! 
Moft devoutly I with they may both have 
their due.’’ CARRIiCK. 
SIR, 
HOPE you wiil think the ee 
fketch worthy of a place in that de- 
partment of your Magazine which occa- 
fionally treats of philological fubjects. 
It is intended to fhew at one view ali the 
eftablifhed founds of the vowels and diph- 
thongs, and the different fingle letters and 
combinations by which each found is cx- 
preffed ; and may be called a pronunci- 
-atory index to the vowels and diphthongs, 
I do not know that it is perféct, though 
it has coft ine fome time and trouble: 
were it fo, it might be of confiderable ule, 
and furnifh greund for curious infpection 
and remark, to thofe who arefond of fuch 
ftudies. 
vice as it is. 
The head-lines fhew, in fixteen divi- 
fions,* all the diftiret vowel and diph- 
* The purpofe of the. eee and 
eighteenth columns is explained in a note, 
MONTHLY Maa, No. 139 
‘thongal founds 
Perhaps it may be of fome fer-. 
Pronunciatory Index 10 Vowels and Diphthongs. 9 
3; asthe fide-line denoted 
by Arabic figures, does the letters and 
combinations by which thofe founds are 
diftinétly exprefled. I fay in both cafes 
diftinéi, for in both I found it impoffible 
to take any notice of unaccented fyilables. 
I had at firft introduced a few ; but foon 
found the neceffity of gjedling them, 
from the obfcure and evanefcent nature of 
them a//: and I am confident, whoever 
examines the fubjeét as much as I have . 
done, willbe of the fame opinion. But 
in faét nothing is loft by this omiffion, for 
they are all merely diminutiwes of the ac- 
cented ones. 
In the prefent day of difgufting affec- 
tation, both authorized and unauthorized 
by the diftionaries, it is peculiarly necel- 
fary for any one in treating on fuch a fub- 
je&t, to endeavour at jeaft to ule a portion 
of difcretion and common-fenfe. Accord- 
ingly, when a word has feemed to me 
firmly fixed in converfation, I have looked 
for no further warrant of its acceptance 5 
and even when its colioquial ufage is con- 
trary to one almof univerfal in books, I 
have confidered that as it bas the former 
found alfo, this was in fome degree fit for 
my purpofe, which is principally to exhi- 
bit actual variety. Thus though all-the 
Pronouncing-Diftionaries in the language 
fhould deny that /pirzt rhymes with merit, 
I would affirm it in contradiction to them. 
Grofs vuigarifms, however, I believe I 
have never taken. One Pronouncing- Dic- 
tionary (which feems to me, on the whole, 
the mof rational] that I have feen} J have 
quoted fometimes, explaining my realon 
for this in my firit reference to it. 
Such poetical exampies as occurr<d in 
my reading or recoleGion- fince I began 
this Table, I have added in the Notes, to 
the words that feemed to require them, 
In the choice of words for {peciinens or 
examples, the mits of your page have 
neceflarily compelled me tothe /Lartef un- 
exceptionable ones. [tis pernaps hardly 
neceflary for me now to add (what, how- 
ever, I with particularly to be borne in 
mind), that itis by no means a part of 
my defign or intention to point out any 
pronunciation as exclufively proper. If 
profels mezely to regifter aes, not to Ge- 
liver dogmas. My. doubts i have gene. 
rally exprefled by the common method of 
a mark of interrogation, and on every 
occafion have fiudioufly avoided interfering 
on controverfial points. Ze 
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