commonly short, as ŏppŏrtunity.

In monosyllables a single vowel before a single consonant is short; as
stag, frog.

Many is pronounced as if it were written manny.

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OF CONSONANTS.

B.

B has one unvaried sound, such as it obtains in other languages.

It is mute in debt, debtor, subtle, doubt, lamb, limb, dumb, thumb, climb,
comb, womb.

It is used before l and r, as black, brown.

C.

C has before e and i the sound of s; as sincerely, centrick, century,
circular, cistern, city, siccity: before a, o, and u, it sounds like k, as
calm, concavity, copper, incorporate, curiosity, concupiscence.

C might be omitted in the language without loss, since one of its
sounds might be supplied by, s, and the other by k, but that it
preserves to the eye the etymology of words, as face from facies,
captive from captivus.