. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . stinguished Frenchmanwho applied himself resolutely to masterthe anomalies of English orthographyand pronunciation, that he made famousprogress with ordinary vocables such as cough and plough, read and bread, theverb sow and the substantive sow, etc. ; buthad to confess himself gi*aveiled among proper names. Here, he complained, is a gentleman who spellshis name C-h-o-l-m-o-n-d-e-l-e-y, and you tell me itsounds Marchbanks! But it is not reasonable, that!Equally deceitful is the pitfall dug for thesoutherner
. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . stinguished Frenchmanwho applied himself resolutely to masterthe anomalies of English orthographyand pronunciation, that he made famousprogress with ordinary vocables such as cough and plough, read and bread, theverb sow and the substantive sow, etc. ; buthad to confess himself gi*aveiled among proper names. Here, he complained, is a gentleman who spellshis name C-h-o-l-m-o-n-d-e-l-e-y, and you tell me itsounds Marchbanks! But it is not reasonable, that!Equally deceitful is the pitfall dug for thesoutherner who mispronounces the name Dalzellaccording to its spelling, or, as he or she may feeldisposed to put it, pronounces it according to themisspelling. The correct pronunciation is attainedsimply by naming the consonants d l, with stress onthe L. Then, why on earth, grumbles the Englishvisitor, cannot Scotsmen spell names as they wishthem pronounced ? To which fair rejoinder mightbe made by referring to such English names asWorcester, Cirencester, etc. ; only that is the tu quoque 180. DALZELL CASTLE form of argument—scarcely courteous, I trow ; so itmay be explained that in the old Scottish alphabetthe character z did not represent the soft sibilant asin zebra, but the consonantal y, as in youth, todistinguish it from the vowel y, as in you press me further and inquire how Dal canfairly be supposed to represent the sound dee, Iam driven to retort that it is no whit moreabsurd than to write Pontefract when you meanone to read Pomfret. So we start fair, you see:and haxdng settled that point, let us look intoLord Hamiltons pretty Clydeside garden. It is formed in terraces cut in the steep side ofa deep and rocky gorge, through which a burn brawlsimpatiently to join the sweeping Clyde. QuothWilliam Cobbett, who paid a visit to Dalzell in1832, Here, were I compelled to live in Scotland,would I choose to reside. Since that time seventy—nearly eighty—years have run, to
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