are adopted by the common mass, and perverted by those who, in their unnatural and affected pronunciation of these words, say,
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ske-i; ke-inde, ge-ide.
This latter mode of pronouncing them in two syllables, is as incorrect and ridiculous as to pronounce the words boil, toil, in two syllables; thus,
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bo-il, to-il.
4. My, wind. When my is contrasted with thy, his, her, your, &c, it is pronounced,
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mi:
in all other situations, it is pronounced,
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me;
as, "My [me] son, give ear to my [me] counsel." When wind ends a line in poetry, and is made to rhyme with mind, bind, kind, &c. it is pronounced,
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wind;