pronunce it in mihi, tibi, sibi, ibi, _et_c., and therfoer not right.

18. As for o, in latin, we differ not; u, the south pronu_n_ces quhen
the syllab beginnes or endes at it, as eu, teu for tu, and eunum meunus
for unum munus, q_uhi_lk, because it is a diphthong sound, and because
they them selfes, quhen a consonant followes it, pronunce it other
wayes, I hoep I sal not need argumentes to prove it wrang, and not be
a pure voual.




OF THE BRITAN VOUALES.

Cap. 3.


1. Of a, in our tongue we have four soundes, al so differing ane from an
other, that they distinguish the verie signification of wordes, as, a
tal man, a gud tal, a horse tal.

2. Quherfoer in this case I wald co_m_mend to our men the imitation of
the greek and latin, quho, to mend this crook, devysed diphthongs. Let
the simplest of these four soundes, or that q_uhi_lk is now in use,
stand with the voual, and supplie the rest with diphthonges; as, for
exemple, I wald wryte the king’s hal with the voual a; a shour of hael,
with ae; hail marie, with ai; and a heal head, as we cal it, quhilk the
English cales a whole head, with ea. And so, besydes the voual, we have
of this thre diphthonges, tuae with a befoer, ae and ai, and ane w_i_th
the e befoer, ea. Ad to them au, howbeit of a distinct sound; as,