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A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
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Σβεννυμι, scatter, sdegno, sdrucciolo, sfavellare, σφιγξ, sgombrare,
sgranare, shake, slumber, smell, snipe, space, splendour, spring, squeeze,
shrew, step, strength, stramen, stripe, sventura, swell.

S is mute in isle, island, demesne, viscount.

T.

T has its customary sound; as take, temptation.

Ti before a vowel has the sound of si as salvation, except an s goes
before, as question; excepting likewise derivatives from words ending in
ty, as mighty, mightier.

Th has two sounds; the one soft, as thus, whether; the other hard, as
thing, think. The sound is soft in these words, then, thence, and there,
with their derivatives and compounds, and in that, these, thou, thee, thy,
thine, their, they, this, those, them, though, thus; and in all words
between two vowels, as, father, whether; and between r and a vowel, as
burthen.

In other words it is hard, as thick, thunder, faith, faithful. Where it is
softened at the end of a word, an e silent must be added, as breath,
breathe; cloth, clothe.

V.

V has a sound of near affinity to that of f, as vain, vanity.

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