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_Ch_ is generally sounded like _tch_, or _tsh_, which is the same to the ear; as in _church, chance, child_ But in words derived froes, it has the sound of _k_; as in _character, schena charta_: except in _chart, charter, charity_ _Ch_, in words derived from the French, takes the sound of _sh_; as in _chaise, eneral, _ch_ sounds like _k_; as in _Chebar, Sirach, Enoch_: but in _Rachel, cherub_, and _cherubi it as _tch_ _Loch_, a Scottish word, sometimes also a medical term, is heard as _lok_

”_Arch_, before a vowel, is pronounced _ark_; as in _archives, archangel, archipelago_: except in _arched, archer, archery, archenemy_ Before a consonant it is pronounced _artch_; as in _archbishop, archduke, archfiend_”--See _W Allen's Gram_, p 10 _Ch_ is silent in _schism, yacht_, and _drachm_ In _schedule_, some utter it as _k_; others, as _sh_; and many make it mute: I like the first practice

IV OF THE LETTER D

The general sound of the consonant _D_, is that which is heard in _dog, eddy, did_ _D_, in the termination _ed_, preceded by a sharp consonant, takes the sound of _t_, when the _e_ is suppressed or unheard: as in _faced, stuffed, cracked, tripped, passed_; pronounced _faste, stuft, cract, tript, past D_ before _ia, ie, io_, or _eou_, when the accent precedes, generally sounds like _j_; as in _Indian, soldier, tedious, hideous_ So in _verdure, arduous, education_

V OF THE LETTER E

The vowel _E_ has _two_ sounds properly its own,--and I incline to think, _three_:--

1 The open, long, full, or primal _e_; as in _me, mere, menial, melodious_

2 The close, curt, short, or stopped _e_; as in _th_

3 The obscure or faint _e_; as in _open, garden, shovel, able_ This third sound is scarcely perceptible, and barely sufficient to articulate the consonant and fors to the syllable fore, eve, ice, ore_ Except--1 In the words, _be, he, me, we, she_, in which it has the open sound; and the article _the_, wherein it is open before a vowel, and obscure before a consonant 2 In Greek and Latin words, in which it has its open sound, and forms a distinct syllable, or the basis of one; as in _Penelope, Pasiphae, Cyanee, Gargaphie, Arsinoe, apostrophe, catastrophe, simile, extere, tre_, in which it has the sound of _close_ or _curt u_, heard before the _r_; as in _acre, le consonant, or after _st_ or _th_, generally preserves the open or long sound of the preceding vowel; as in _cane, here, pine, cone, tune, thyme, baste, waste, lathe, clothe_: except in syllables unaccented; as in the last of _genuine_;--and in a few ive, live, shove, love_

DIPHTHONGS BEGINNING WITH E

_E_ before an other vowel, in general, either fors to a separate syllable We do not hear both vowels in one syllable, except perhaps in _eu_ or _ew_

_Ea_, an i e_; as in _ear, fear, tea_; frequently like _close_ or _curt e_; as in _head, health, leather_: so a_; as in _steak, bear, forswear_: rarely, like _middle a_; as in _heart, hearth, hearken Ea_ in an unaccented syllable, sounds like _close_ or _curt u_; as _in vengeance, pageant_

_Ee_, an i e_; as in _eel, sheep, tree, trustee, referee_ The contractions _e'er_ and _ne'er_, are pronounced _air_ and _nair_, and not like _ear_ and _near

E'en_, however, preserves the sound of _open e Been_ is most commonly heard with the curt sound of _i, bin_

_Ei_, an i a_; as in _reign, veil_: frequently, like _open_ or _long e_; as in _deceit, either, neither, seize_: soh-ho_: often, in unaccented syllables, like _close_ or _curt i_; as in _foreign, forfeit, surfeit, sovereign_: rarely, like _close e_; as in _heifer, nonpareil_

_Eo_, an i e_; in _leopard_ and _jeopard_, like _close_ or _curt e_; in _yeo o_; in _George, Georgia, georgic_, like _close o_; in _dungeon, puncheon, sturgeon_, &c, like _close u_ In _feoff_, and its derivatives, the _close_ or _short_ sound of _e_ issound of _e_; and some write the word ”_fief” Feod, feodal, feodary, feodatory_, are now commonly written as they are pronounced, _feud, feudal, feudary, feudatory_

_Eu_ and _ew_ are sounded alike, and al u_; as in _feud, deuce, jewel, de_

These diphthongs, when initial, sound like _yu_ Nouns beginning with this sound, require the article _a_, and not _an_, before them; as, _A European, a ewer_ After _r_ or _rh, eu_ and _ew_ are corew, screw, rheumatism_ In _sew_ and _Shrewsbury, ew_ sounds like _open o_: Worcester, however, prefers the sound of _oo_ in the latter word _Shew_ and _strew_, having the sa as _show_ and _strow_, are sometimes, by sameness of pronunciation, uished as different words, by taking the sounds _shu_ and _stroo_

_Ey_, accented, has the sound of _open_ or _long a_; as in _bey, prey, survey_: unaccented, it has the sound of _open e_; as in _alley, valley, money Key_ and _ley_ are pronounced _kee, lee_

TRIPHTHONGS BEGINNING WITH E

_Eau_, a French triphthong, sounds like _open o_; as in _beau, flambeau, portmanteau, bureau_: except in _beauty_, and its compounds, in which it is pronounced like _open u_, as if the ritten _buty_