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A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
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Dhe same propriety, dhat dhus gards dhe Inglish vowel (_e_), prezervs, no
les _piously_, dhe parental equivvalent (_i_), in _obligacion_, _marriner_,
_mackinate_, _mackinacion_, _indefattigabel_, _anticquity_, az wel az
_antiquary_; and evvery forrain buty, consistent widh domestic truith.

If dhe prezzent century hav made manny improovments, in orthoggraphy and
elsehware; it haz certainly made manny alteracions, dhat wer dhe verry
reverse ov improovment. Som eying truith, onely in her parents, wood
_allege_ dhat _virtue_ alone cood _persuade_; havving lernedly perfwaded
dhemselvs, dhat _vertue_ might hav _sweetnes_, widhout partaking _suavity_,
by hwich dhey pictured _swavvity_. It seems howevver high time dhat a
certain kingdom, at length panting after evvery propriety, shood know and
confes, dhat her name iz no more _England_, dhan _Engelonde_ or _Angland_;
or dhan her sovverain iz _king ov France_!

Since won symbol must no more usurp dhe office ov anoddher, _o_ wil no
longuer pretend to' paint _A braud_ open (_au_); in _ought_, _nought_,
_brought_, _thought_, _sought_, _fought_, _bought_; for _aught_ (now indeed
_aut_), and dhe rest: nor wil _groat_ and _broad_ expect anny more, to' be
acknolleged _graut_ and _braud_.

Nedher _tongue_ nor _tong_ (alreddy won ov a pair) can picture _tung_; dho
_u_ stil employ dhe distinctive substitucion ov _o_ in _son_, male issue;
nor les propperly dhe ettymolodgic in _yong_, _mong_, _mongrel_, _monk_,
(widh _monkey_,) and _Monday_; in _monney_, _bonney_, _conney_, _condit_,
_constabel_; az in _yolk_, so in _covver_, _hovver_, _plovver_; in _lovver_
and _glovver_, from _lov_ and _glov_. _Cullor_ (nevver _colour_) avoids
coincidence equally widh _collar_ and _coller_; dhe latter greekly, not
frenchly, affected _choler_.

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