P. 21 (6). He disputes the possibility of a final _e_, separated from
a preceding vowel by a consonant, having any effect whatever in
altering the sound of the preceding vowel, and recommends the use of a
diphthong to express the sound required; as, hoep for hope, fier for
fire, bied for bide, befoer for before, maed for made, etc. He
uniformly throughout follows this rule.

P. 22 (5). Hume here accents difficultie on the antepenultimate
instead of the first syllable.

P. 23 (7). He puts down outrage as an instance of two distinct words
joined by a hyphen, which is the derivation given by Ash in his
dictionary, in strange obliviousness of the French word _outrage_.

P. 27 (1, 6). _T_ is omitted after _s_ in the second person singular
of the verb, and so no distinction is made between the second and the
third persons; thus, thou wrytes, and at p. 32 thou was, and thou hes.

P. 29 (7). The supposition that the apostrophe ’s as a mark of the
possessive case is a segment of his, a question which has been lately
revived, is here denied.

P. 34. In this last chapter on Punctuation, which the author styles
“of Distinctiones,” no mention whatever is made of the “semicolon,”
though it occurs frequently in the MS., as, for instance, p. 30, cap.
6. This stop, according to Herbert, was first used by Richard Grafton
in _The Byble_ printed in 1537: it occurs in the Dedication. Henry
Denham, an English printer who flourished towards the close of the
sixteenth century, was the first to use it with propriety.