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A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
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_obey_, _inveigh_, _convey_, _survey_, and _purvey_; az wel az hwen febel,
in _parley_, _barley_, _Harley_, _Chudleigh_, and dheir fellows.

But _e_ cannot be _a_, widh dhe servile dhat distinguishes _e_: _tear_
cannot be clas-mate, at wonce to' _fear_ and _fair_. If dherfor _e_ cannot
be _a_, widh _a_ servile; and _a_ need no substitute in dhe verbs _tair_,
_wair_, _swair_, and _bair_; _peir_, dhe fruit, and _beir_, dhe beast,
claim dhe substitute vowel, widh due servile; _pair_, _pare_, _bair_ and
_bare_, being engaged. For like rezon, _braik_ and _grait_ admit no vocal
substitute. _Where_ and _there_ no more puzzel dhan bely, in dheir own
shape, ov _hware_ and _dhare_.

_E_ fairly substituting dhe forrain _i_, in _pier_, _bier_, _mien_, _lief_,
widh _belief_, _believ_; _relief_, _reliev_; and dhe rest; so distinct from
_peer_, _beer_; _mean_, _leaf_; or so connected by alliance, forrain or
domestic; dhe substitucion simmilarly prevails in _shriek_, _fiend_,
_fief_, _brief_, _chief_, _atchiev_; _thief_, _thiev_; _repriev_,
_retriev_; _pierce_, _fierce_, and _tierce_: ettymollogy howevver, scorning
alike substitucion and superfluity, in _receiv_, _receit_, and dheir
collaterals.

Forrain semblance belied dhe adoptives, _oblige_, _marine_, _machine_,
_magazine_, _fatigue_, _intrigue_, _antique_, and _shire_; til Londoners
began to' treat dhem az natives ov Ingland; not dreaming dhat dheir essence
cood not here be prezerved, but in dhe guize ov _oblege_, _marene_,
_mashene_, _maggazene_, _fategue_, _intregue_, _anteke_ (or _anteek_,
_mareen_, and dhe rest,) joined by _legue_, _twegue_, and _shere_: hwich
last, dho dhus sevvered from _sheer_ and _shear_, boath coincident in
sound, waz beguinning, in dhe false shape ov _shire_, (like _oblege_, in
dhat ov _oblige_,) to' violate Inglish harmony in evvery British nacion.
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