the same sound. Here they are:

[Transcriber's Note:
Letters originally printed in _italics_ are here CAPITALIZED for
clarity.]

AtE grEAt fEIGn
bAss EH! wEIGH
pAIn gAOl AYE
pAY gAUgE obEYEd
dAHlia champAGnE wEIGHEd
vEIn campAIGn trAIT
thEY strAIGHt hALFpenny[1]

[1]Prof. Skeat adds a twenty-second: Lord Reay!

(Compare eye, lie, high, etc.)

In Esperanto this sound is expressed only and always by "e." In fact,
the language is absolutely and entirely phonetic, as all real language
was once.

As regards difficulties of vocabulary, the same may be said as in
the case of the sounds. Esperanto only adopts the minimum of roots
essential, and these are simple, non-ambiguous, and as international
as possible. Owing to the device of word-building by means of a few
suffixes and prefixes with fixed meaning, the number of roots necessary
is very greatly less than in any natural language.[1]

[1]Most of these roots are already known to educated people. For the