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    A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy
    A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy
    A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy
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    A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy

    By James Elphinston

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy - James Elphinston

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      Title: A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy

      Author: James Elphinston

      Release Date: May 25, 2005 [EBook #15901]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY ***

      Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      A

      MINNIATURE

      OV

      INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY.

      TO'

      DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES,

      DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES

      OV WALES;

      DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES

      OV YORK:

      ONNORED AZ UNDOUTED

      PATRONS AND PATTERNS

      OV EVVERY PROPRIETY:

      DHIS MINNIATURE

      Ov Inglish Orthoggraphy,

      UMBLY HOPES UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE;

      FROM DHE BENIGN PERMISSION

      OV BEING SO INSCRIBED,

      BY DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES

      DEVOTED SERVANT,

      James Elphinston.

      A

      MINNIATURE

      OV

      Inglish Orthoggraphy:

      DEDDICATED TO'

      DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES OF WALES,

      DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES OV YORK:

      BY JAMES ELPHINSTON.

      LONDON:

      Sold (Price 1 Shilling and 6 Pence) by

      w. ritchardson, royal exchainge; t. boosey, n. 4,

      braud-street, dhare; f. and c. rivvington,

      n. 62; st. pauls churchyard; j. deighton,

      n. 325, holborn; w. clark,

      n. 38, bond-street.

      1795.

      CONTENTS.

      1. Introduccion

      2. Orthoggraphy ascertained in dhe vowels, and dheir serviles

      3. Vocal substitucion, licenced and licencious

      4. Ov open and shut vowels

      5. Ov dhe aspirates and dheir insertives

      6. Ov redundant serviles

      7. Ov impracticabel articulacion

      8. Ov false aspiracion

      9. Dhe guttural aspirate lost, or transmuted by moddern organs

      10. Old R aspirate

      11. Oddher antiquated idellers

      12. Final fantoms, or dubblers ov final forms

      13. Oddher falsifiers, medial or final; licquids or sibbilants; particcularly ti for a sibbilacion

      14. Dhe orthoggraphy ov propper names

      15. Dhe fundamental principel ov orthoggraphy

      16. The orthographic riddle

      A

      MINNIATURE

      OV

      INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY.

      1. INTRODUCTION.

      Hwen evvery oddher language, and at last our own, haz been reduced to' science; rendered accountabel to' natives, and accessibel to' straingers; hwence iz it, dhat our practice, growing daily more a contrast dhan an exemplificacion ov our theory, tempts ignorance to' speak, az blind habbit spels; raddher dhan to' dream ov spelling, az propriety exhibbits her unremitted harmony, hweddher in word or writing? For propriety, hwarevver herd, can be seen onely in her picture: nor can dhis be duly drawn, but from dhe oridginal; or dhe likenes long prezerved, in dhe coppies ov vulgarrity.

      Scarce creddibel doz it seem, to' dhe anallogists ov oddher diccions, dhat hiddherto', in Inglish exhibiscion, evvery vowel and evvery consonant ar almoast az often falsifiers az immages ov dhe truith. Hetteroggraphy indeed, or false litterary picture, can arize onely from won, or a combinacion, ov foar cauzes: redundance, defiscience;

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