Part 62 (2/2)

After _b_, _v_, _th_ (as in _clothe_), _g_, or _z_, the addition is _-d_

This is a d_, _whizzd_, because _stabt_, _t_, _whizzt_, are unpronounceable

After _l_, _m_, _n_, _r_, _w_, _y_, or a vowel, the addition is also _-d_

This is the habit of the English language _Filt_, _slurt_, _strayt_, &c, are as pronounceable as _filld_, _slurrd_, _strayd_, &c It is the habit, however, of the English language to prefer the latter forms All this, as the reader has probably observed, isthe _s_, in words like {318} _father's_, &c, applied to another letter and to another part of speech

For so the use of _-d_, _-t_, and _-ed_, in the spelling of the English praeterites and participles, the reader is referred to the Caical Museuation fall into three classes In the first there is the simple addition of _-d_, _-t_, or _-ed_

Serve, served

Cry, cried

Betray, betrayed

Expel, expelled

Accuse, accused

Instruct, instructed

Invite, invited

Waste, wasted

Dip, dipped (_dipt_)

Slip, slipped (_slipt_)

Step, stepped (_stept_)

Look, looked (_lookt_)

Pluck, plucked (_pluckt_)

Toss, tossed (_tost_)

Push, pushed (_pusht_)

Confess, confessed (_confest_)

To this class belong the greater part of the weak verbs and all verbs of foreign origin

-- 379 In the second class, besides the addition of _-t_ or _-d_, the vowel is _shortened_ It also contains those words which end in _-d_ or _-t_, and at the sast others, are _cut_, _cost_, &c, where the two tenses are alike, and _bend_, _rend_, &c, where the praeterite is for _-d_ into _-t_, as _bent_, _rent_, &c

In the following list, the words ending in _-p_ are relo-Saxon, each of the praeterite

Leave, left

Cleave, cleft

Bereave, bereft

Deal, de[)a]l_t_