How manny final fantoms, in articculating shape, must Truiths torch beam
away! how manny dubblers ov a singuel clozer, espescially _l_, _f_, _s_,
and _c_! az _ill_, _off_, _ass_, _back_; so _err_, _inn_, _ebb_, _add_,
_odd_, _egg_: really no more, nor capabel ov being more, dhan _il_, _of_,
_as_, _bac_; _er_, _in_, _eb_, _ad_, _od_, _eg_. _Shall_, for _shal_, doz
addiscional mischief, by inviting ignorance to' brauden dhe vowel.
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13. ODDHER FALSIFIERS, MEDIAL OR FINAL, OV LICQUIDS OR SIBBILANTS;
PARTICCULARLY, _TI_ FOR A SIBBILACION.
Our misrepprezented consonants seem reducibel to' dheze. 1. Licquid for
licquid: _l_ for _r_, in dhe French _colonel_ for dhe Inglish _curnel_; _n_
for _m_, in dhe unutterabel _Banff_, for dhe good town ov _Bamf_. Here too
may enter for explozion, dhe _n_ ov dhe indeffinite artikel, hweddher
before a licquefaccion or an aspiracion; nedher ov hwich iz a vowel: so can
we no more say _an unicorn_ dhan _an horse_, for _a unicorn_ or _a horse_.
2. Direct for depressive; _f_ for _v_, in _of_ for _ov_; _s_ for _z_, in
_as_, _has_, _was_, _is_, _his_; for _az_, _haz_, _waz_, _iz_, _hiz_: in
dhe verbs, _house_, _use_, _peruse_, _abuse_, _excuse_, _amuse_, like
_muse_, noun or verb; _chuse_ or _choose_, widh dhe _dubbly_ fallacious
_lose_ and _vase_: for _houz_ (like _brouz_), _uze_, _peruze_, _abuze_,
_excuze_, _amuze_, _muze_, _chuze_ or _chooz_, _looz_, and _vauz_. Dhe
verbs dhus, duly sevvered from dhe nouns, lead to' distinguish dhe verb
_refuze_ from dhe adjective _refuse_, az wel az from dhe substantive
_reffuse_. _Profuze_ and _profuse_, _diffuze_ and _diffuse_, ar simmilarly
distinguishabel. Az we saw _s_ play _dubbel z_ in _visit_ and _vision_, for
_vizzit_ and _vizzion_; so see we dubbel _s_ for _z_ in dhe middel, and for
won _s_ in dhe end ov _possess_, for _pozes_; hwich hwile oppozite stres
secures to' dhe ear from dhe formative ov _poze_, az _cares_ from dhat ov
_care_, dhe context may wel guide dhe eye ov attension to' dhe undouted
meaning. No wonder if dhe direct figgure ov dhe sibbilant frenchly _rose_,
and _occasionally rises_, for dhe depressive reallity; _s_ for _z_ in
_rose_ and _rises_, _occasionally_ between vowels; for _occazionally roze_
and _rizes_; nay for dhe dubbel depressive in _risen_, for _rizzen_. Dhis
rivals indeed _Stephen_ for _Steven_, and even _nephew_ for _nevvew_. If
_Stephanus_ pretended to' pattronize dhe won, _neveu_ (not _nepos_) must
command dhe oddher.
But dhe French acaddemy, so exemplary in evvery exhibiscion ov its
language, set nohwere so fatal or so followed an exampel, az in pretending
to' conjure _ti_ into' _si_ before a vowel: a combinacion indeed! hwich
Inglish picturage ventured onely to' constitute, raddher substitute, a
sibbilant aspirate; dhe same groop _condition_ prezenting in won picturage
_condicion_; and dhence in dhe oddher _condiscion_. Yet French led not
Inglish into' dhe dissolucion ov _x_ into' _ct_, in _flexion_, _reflexion_;
hwich dhe former nevver violated into' _flection_, _reflection_, or dhe
like.
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