eri, t
ip;" and with a z before it, the French sound of the jod j, as in "jamais," "z
ame."
Thus the g has no longer two different sounds, which occasioned confusion, but is, as every letter ought to be, confined to one. The same is to be observed in all the letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there be no superfluous letters used in spelling; i. e. no letter that is not sounded; and this alphabet, by six new letters, provides, that, there be no distinct sounds in the language, without letters to express them. As to the difference between short and long vowels, it is naturally expressed by a single vowel where short, a double one where long; as for "mend," write "mend," but for "remain'd," write "remeen'd;" for "did" write "did," but for "deed" write "diid," &c.
What in our common alphabet is supposed the third vowel, i, as we sound it, is as a dipthong, consisting of two of our vowels joined; [viz.]
as sounded in "unto," and i in its true sound. Any one will be sensible of this who sounds those two vowels