Ish, termination, whether it may be accounted a degree of comparison
It. its chief use
—declined
—to what creatures may be applied
—put for the distance, ("How far do you call IT?" &c., PRIESTL.,)
—without definite reference to an anteced.
—as explet., and referring to something expressed afterwards; faulty
omission of, before verb, in such construc.
—had formerly no variation of cases
—its poss. form ITS, for of it, of recent origin, and not found in
the text of the common Bible
—wrongly excluded by some from the list of pers. pronouns:
—its derivation from Sax., traced
Italic letters, Italics, some account of —for what purpose used —how denoted in preparing manuscripts
J.
J, its name and plur. numb. —why never doubled —why never ends a word in Eng. —impropriety of dividing on the letter, in syllabication —sounds of,
Johnson, Dr. S., his authority in Eng. orthography
Joint nominatives, agreem. of verb with
—whether words connected by with can be used as. Joint
antecedents, agreem. of pron. with
—of different persons, agreem. of verb or pron. with, in ellipt.
construc.
Jumbling together of the active voice and the passive, the manner of some —Jumbling, senseless, Crit. N. censuring
K.
K, its name and plur. —in general, not needed in words derived from the learned languages —its sounds —when silent —Two Kays standing together