2. ORTHOGGRAPHY ASCERTAINED IN DHE VOWELS, AND DHEIR SERVILES.
It iz not now new, dhat evvery Inglish vowel haz, not onely a longuer and shorter, but even a different sound, az open or shut by a consonant; dho A braud, open and shut, differ but in quantity. Nor iz it yet a secret, dhat certain mutes, or silent letters, (espescially vocal quiescents,) ar named serviles; rendering essencial az vizzibel service, boath to' vowels and consonants. Hware such gards ar wanted, dhey doutles wil attend; and, hwen dhey proov superfluous, az reddily widhdraw. Dhus dhe open vowel ov dhe simpel shuts, and dhe serviles vannish, in dhe penultimate ov dhe compound: shake, Shakspear; chear, cherfool; vine, vinyard, and dhe like. So formatives: stare and stair, starling; steer, sterling; shere, sherrif; child, children; kind, kindred; know, knollege; and dhe rest.
Evvery open ear must allow dhe aspiracion (h) to' articculate iniscially dhe braud vocal licquid (w); nor longuer imadgine dhat wh, apparent, can becom hw real; or dhat what, whale, wheels, can rascionally paint dhe power ov hwat, hwale, hweels. Dhe braud licquid (w) haz no place in hoal, total; or in hore, prostitute; distinct alike, to' dhe eye, from hole and hoar. But wh, iniscial, may wel prommise hw; if le and re, boath final, may picture el and er: az we admire, not onely on dhe little theatre, but in dhe centre ov dhe battle! Dho a tutch ov Rezons wand wil restore dhe buty ov truith; at wonce to' dhe littel theater, and to' dhe center ov dhe battel; az such buty beamed in dhe former century.
Dhe French table, chambre, ancien, danger, ar dhe unexcepcionabel parents ov dhe Inglilh tabel, chaimber, aincient, dainger; hoo ar too apt scollars, not to' lern from parental exampel, to' show dhemselvs hwat dhey ar; widhout wondering, dhat won tung iz not anoddher, or dhat each must hav her own essence and semblance; and dhat in ours, az in oddher picturage, an open vowel must not appear a shut won. Indispensabel dhen az dhe servile (i) in dhe three last exampels, iz it in aingel, dho inadmissibel in angellic; in evvery ainge and ainger, like rainge and rainger; az wel az in caimbric and Caimbridge; dho nedher in Cam nor Cambray.
If a slender, open, must hav in such case its gardian; a slender, even shut, hwen protracted, requires its protracting aspiracion (h): az in ah! Mahlah; so in Pahtric, fahdher, pappah, mammah, and ahnt; so distinct (dho safe enuf ungarded) from ant dhe emmet. But gahp, herd, iz dhus no longuer seen gape. Hant, hanch, and dheir fellows, admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' wrauth, wauter, and vauz; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo chant and branch.
O must hav its own medial servant, to' ascertain its opennes; in poark, poart, spoart, foart, foard, goard, soard, (wonce sword), foarth, foarce, foarge; boast, coast, goast, moast, poast, and boath; justly az in dhe annimal boar, in board, boast, and dheir fellows; dho slow gender slowth, reggularly, az grow, growth. Widh poart and poast, poartal, poarter; poastage, and dhe like.
Better no attendant, dhan a false won. O direct (dhe common o) can nedher assume o, dhe servile ov o depressive (oo); nor u, hwich wood seem its partner in a dipthong. Doar, floar, and moar, ar dhus reggular and safe; dore, flore, and more, widh equivvalent servile, leve more coincident; yet compounds prefer dhe final servile: az batteldore,[[1]] Blacmore, Hwitmore; and Strathmore, scottishly strong on dhe latter syllabel.
Soll, spirrit, avoids occular union widh sole, alike, and soal: by adopting dhe servile ov poll, boll, toll, roll (widh controll,) scroll, and droll. Like dipthongal dainger precludes u from dhe servile funccion, duly undertaken by a in soar, moarn, boarn, distinct from boren or bor'n, dhe compannion ov woren or wor'n, sworen or swor'n, toren or tor'n, shoren or shor'n, and clear, az open and shut, ov born; in coart, goard, coarse, and soarce. Coarce, dhe ded boddy, dies no more in corpse; hwen dhus boren decently to' interment. Dhis precaution suffers o open, to' understand or omit, dhe servile before l and anny oddher consonant: az in old colt, wonce seen and herd ould coult. If old colt now suffice, oald coalt iz understood. For dhis rezon, goald must no longuer be robbed ov its depressive servile, wonce legally seen in gould. Au, widh les plea, suppresses its servile in like sittuacion; az salt and alder; except in dhe singuel assault! saut and vaut being, now, duly out ov dhe question.