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_I_, in the situation last described, readily coalesces with the vohich follows, and is often sunk into the sa: as in _fustian, quotient, question_ The terenerally pronounced _shun_; and _cious_ and _tious_ are pronounced _shus_

_Ie_ is co _Ie_ in _die, hie, lie, pie, tie, vie_, and their derivatives, has the sound of _open i Ie_ in words froe, bier_,) has the sound of _open e_ So, generally, in the rief, thief_; but, in _sieve_, it has the sound of _close_ or _short i_

In _friend_, and its derivatives or compounds, it takes the sound of _close e_

TRIPHTHONGS BEGINNING WITH I

The triphthongs ieu and iew both sound like open or long u; as in lieu, adieu, view

The three vowels iou, in the termination ious, often fall into one syllable, and for There are two hundred and forty-five words of this ending; and more than two hundred deriva- tives fro inconsistencies in their pronunciation; such as fas-tid-i-ous and per-fid-ious, con-ta-gi-ous and sac-ri-le-gious After c, g, t, or x, these vowels should coalesce: as in gra-cious, re-li-gious, vex-a-tious, ob-nox-ious, and about two hundred other words After the other consonants, let them form two syllables; (except when there is a syn- seresis in poetry;) as in dw-bi-ou-s, o-di-ous, va-ri-ous, en-vi-ous

X OF THE LETTER J

The consonant _J_, the tenth letter of the English alphabet, has invariably the sound of _soft g_, like the _g_ in _giant_, which some say is equivalent to the complex sound _dzh_; as, _jade, jet, jilt, joy, justice, jewel, prejudice_

XI OF THE LETTER K

The consonant _K_, not silent, has uniformly the sound of _c_ hard; and occurs where _c_ would have its soft sound: as in _keep, looking, kind, smoky_

_K_ before _n_ is silent; as in _knave, know, knuckle_ In stead of doubling _c final_, rite _ck_; as in _lack, lock, luck, attack_ In English words, _k_ is never doubled, though two Kays ether in certain co to different syllables, also stand together in a few Scripture names; as in _Akkub, Bakbakkar, Bukki, Bukkiah, Habakkuk Hakkoz, Ikkesh, Sukkiih it does not always double the sound which _c_ or _k_ in such a situationvowel; as in _rack, speck, freckle, cockle, wicked_

XII OF THE LETTER L

The consonant _L_, the plainest of the semivowels, has a soft, liquid sound; as in _line, lily, roll, follow L_ is sometimes silent; as in _Holmes, alms, almond, calm, chalk, walk, calf, half, could, would, should

L_, too, is frequently doubled where it is heard but once; as in _hill, full, travelled_ So any letter that is written twice, and not twice sounded, must there be once , all, inn, coo, err, less, buzz_

XIII OF THE LETTER M

The consonant _M_ is a se sound through the nose, when the mouth is closed It is heard in _map, murmur, mammon_ In the old words, _compt, accompt, comptroller_, (for _count, account, controller_,) the _ of a word, is silent; as in _Mnason, Mnemosyne, mnemonics_

XIV OF THE LETTER N

The consonant _N_, which is also a semivowel and a liquid, has two sounds;--the first, the pure and natural sound of _n_; as in _nun, banner, cannon_;--the second, the ringing sound of _ng_, heard before certain gutturals; as in _think, , Cen'chrea_ The latter sound should be carefully preserved in all words ending in _ing_, and in such others as require it The sounding of the syllable _ing_ as if it were _in_, is a vulgaris of it so, is, as it would seee of Burns, a Scotticism

_N final_ preceded by _m_, is silent; as in _hymn, solemn, column, damn, condemn, autumn_ But this _n_ becomes audible in an additional syllable; as in _autu_

XV OF THE LETTER O

The vowel _O_ has _three_ different sounds, which are properly its own:--

1 The open, full, pri _o_; as in _no, note, opiate, opacity, Roman_