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1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
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SUBSTITUTES.


1. _What is a Substitute?_
A letter representing a sound usually represented by another.

2. _What are Equivalent letters?_
Letters representing the same sound.

3. _What properties do Substitutes assume?_
The properties of the letter whose sound it represents.

4. _How many Substitutes has a long?_
Four.

5. _What are they?_
_E_ in tete; _ei_ in feint; _ey_ in they; and _ao_ in gaol.

6. _How many Substitutes has a middle?_
Two.

7. _What are they?_
_E_ in there; and _ei_ in heir.

8. _How many Substitutes has a broad?_
Two.

9. _What are they?_
_O_ in cord; and _ou_ in sought.
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