A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy | Page 2

ours, az in oddher picturage, an open vowel must not appear a shut won. Indispensabel dhen az dhe servile (_i_) in dhe three last exampels, iz it in aingel, dho inadmissibel in _angellic_; in evvery ainge and ainger, like rainge and _rainger_; az wel az in caimbric and _Caimbridge_; dho nedher in Cam nor Cambray.
If a slender, open, must hav in such case its gardian; a slender, even shut, hwen protracted, requires its protracting aspiracion (_h_): az in _ah! Mahlah_; so in Pahtric, fahdher, pappah, mammah, and _ahnt_; so distinct (dho safe enuf ungarded) from ant dhe emmet. But gahp, herd, iz dhus no longuer seen gape. Hant, hanch, and dheir fellows, admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' _wrauth, wauter_, and _vauz_; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo chant and branch.
O must hav its own medial servant, to' ascertain its opennes; in poark, poart, spoart, foart, foard, goard, soard, (wonce _sword_), foarth, foarce, _foarge_; boast, coast, goast, moast, poast, and _boath_; justly az in dhe annimal boar, in board, boast, and dheir fellows; dho slow gender slowth, reggularly, az _grow, growth_. Widh poart and poast, poartal, _poarter_; poastage, and dhe like.
Better no attendant, dhan a false won. O direct (dhe common _o_) can nedher assume o, dhe servile ov o depressive (_oo_); nor u, hwich wood seem its partner in a dipthong. Doar, floar, and moar, ar dhus reggular and safe; dore, flore, and more, widh equivvalent servile, leve more coincident; yet compounds prefer dhe final servile: az batteldore,[1] Blacmore, _Hwitmore_; and Strathmore, scottishly strong on dhe latter syllabel.
Soll, spirrit, avoids occular union widh sole, alike, and _soal_: by adopting dhe servile ov poll, boll, toll, roll (widh controll,) scroll, and droll. Like dipthongal dainger precludes u from dhe servile funccion, duly undertaken by a in soar, moarn, boarn, distinct from boren or _bor'n_, dhe compannion ov woren or _wor'n_, sworen or _swor'n_, toren or _tor'n_, shoren or _shor'n_, and clear, az open and shut, ov _born_; in coart, goard, coarse, and soarce. Coarce, dhe ded boddy, dies no more in _corpse_; hwen dhus boren decently to' interment. Dhis precaution suffers o open, to' understand or omit, dhe servile before l and anny oddher consonant: az in old colt, wonce seen and herd ould coult. If old colt now suffice, oald coalt iz understood. For dhis rezon, goald must no longuer be robbed ov its depressive servile, wonce legally seen in gould. Au, widh les plea, suppresses its servile in like sittuacion; az salt and _alder_; except in dhe singuel assault! saut and vaut being, now, duly out ov dhe question.
If ou cannot now paint o direct, much les can it picture o depressive (_oo_); in you, youth, _uncouth_; should, would, or _could_: for yoo, yooth, _uncooth_; shood, wood, or cood. Hwen ou Inglish transferred its equivvalence from dhe French ou to' dhe German au, hwich compounds a braud, widh o depressive (au widh _oo_); az itself cood no more be frenchly interchaingeabel widh _oo_; nedher ov its parts waz more likely to' becom so. Do or who can no more dhan doe or hoe, (boath better employed!) or dhan shoe, canoe, lose, move, prove, _behove_; Rome, Coke, Pole, or simmilar; prezent dhe prezzent doo, hoo, shoo, canoo, looz, moov, proov, behoov, Room, Cook, Pool, or dhe like: for truith fears notthing from coincidence ov sound, and falsehood always leads astray. B may distinctively open dhe vowel, in climb and _comb_; but cannot render it also depressive in comb, tomb, bomb, and _womb_; for coomb, toomb, boomb, and woomb. Hwatevver u may hav been in Lattin vocallity, dhat figgure cannot guiv oo, even open, in Inglish; far les oo shut, in pull, bull, _full_; butcher, put, pudding, puss, push, _bush_; bushel, _cushion_; for pool, bool, fool, bootcher, poot, poodding, poose, poosh, boosh, booshel, and _coossion_: in all ov hwich, dhe oo iz doutles short az shut; and distinct az foolling and fooling. If u cannot prommise oo shut, no more can oo proxy u shut, in dhe singuel foot for fut. No servile can attend a shut vowel; and truith must hav her own, like suit and _fruit_: in dhe French bruit it iz also distinctive. Alreddy hav we seen o direct disguized, no les dhan o depressive; and can we longuer bair dhe Gallic beau, for dhe Brittish _boe_; more dhan dhe dubble falsifier beauty, for dhe Inglish buty, dhe sweet compannion ov _duty_?
Sew, shew, and strew, wer dhe preddecessors, so cannot be dhe identities, ov soe, show, and _strow_: dhe first dhus occularly clear ov sow, so different verb and noun! dhe latter, distinct to' dhe ear by dhe dipthong, hwich also distinguishes slough, no more swallowing _sluf_: toe and tow (no more jostling widh tough, now _tuf_), doe and dough, floe and flow,