Part 2 (1/2)

In le consonant is short; as stag, frog

Many is pronounced as if it ritten manny

OF CONSONANTS

B

B has one unvaried sound, such as it obtains in other languages

It is mute in debt, debtor, subtle, doubt, lamb, limb, dumb, thumb, climb, comb, womb

It is used before l and r, as black, brown

C

C has before e and i the sound of s; as sincerely, centrick, century, circular, cistern, city, siccity: before a, o, and u, it sounds like k, as calm, concavity, copper, incorporate, curiosity, concupiscence

C e without loss, since one of its sounds ht be supplied by, s, and the other by k, but that it preserves to the eye the etyy of words, as face from facies, captive from captivus

Ch has a sound which is analyzed into tsh, as church, chin, crutch It is the saive to the c simple before i and e, as citta, cerro

Ch is sounded like k in words derived from the Greek, as chymist, scheme, choler Arch is coel, and with the English sound of ch before a consonant, as archbishop

Ch, in some French words not yet assimilated, sounds like sh, as raphy, never ends a word; therefore rite stick, block, which were originally, sticke, blocke In such words c is now mute

It is used before l and r, as clock, cross

D

Is uniforent

It is used before r, as draw, dross; and w as dwell

F

F, though having a nara the semivowels, yet has this quality of a mute, that it is commodiously sounded before a liquid, as flask, fry, freckle It has an unvariable sound, except that of is sometimes spoken nearly as ov

G

G has two sounds; one hard, as in gay, go, gun; the other soft, as in geiant

At the end of a word it is always hard, as ring, snug, song, frog