68 See W. E. A. Axon’s “The Future of the English Language,” the
“Almanach de Gotha,” and De Candolle’s “Histoire des Sciences,”
1873.
69 The pronoun _it_ woz speld in eight diferent wayz bei Tyndale
th[p]s, _hyt_, _hytt_, _hit_, _hitt_, _it_, _itt_, _yt_, _ytt_.
Another author speld _tongue_ in the folowing wayz: _tung, tong,
tunge, tonge, tounge_. The w[p]rd _head_ woz vario[p]sli speld
_hed_, _heede_, _hede_, _hefode_. The spelingz _obay_, _survay_,
_pray_, _vail_, _vain_, ar often uzed for _obey_, _survey_, _prey_,
_veil_, _vein_.
70 Popular Education—A Revision of English Spelling a National
Necessity. By E. Jones, B.A. London, 1875.
71 “Rig-Veda-Prâti_s_âkhya, Das älteste Lehrbuch der Vedischen
Phonetik, Sanskrit Text, mit Übersetzung und Anmerkungen,
herausgegeben,” von F. Max Müller, Leipzig, 1869.
72 Beal, _Travels of Buddhist Pilgrims_, Introd. p. xxi.; _Chinese
Repository_, vol. x. No. 3, March, 1841.
73 See an account of the Introduction of Buddhism into China, in
_Journal Asiatique_, 1856, August, p. 105. _Recherches sur l’origine
des ordres religieux dans l’empire chinois_, par Bazin.