. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ot is moor to the Porpus iHave quit Lost my Happy tight and am gettin wus andwus witch I Think yu ort to pitty Mee. I am tolled everyDay that ime Gettin Thinner and a Jipsy sed that nothinwood Cure me But a Pving. i wos a Long time makin my Mind Up to right to Youfor of Coarse i Says j ernes will think me too forrad butthis bein Lcep yere i thout ide Make a Plunge speshialyas her grashius madjesty as Set the Exampel of Popin thequeshton, leastways to all Them as dont Want to Bee oldMadcs all their blessed li
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ot is moor to the Porpus iHave quit Lost my Happy tight and am gettin wus andwus witch I Think yu ort to pitty Mee. I am tolled everyDay that ime Gettin Thinner and a Jipsy sed that nothinwood Cure me But a Pving. i wos a Long time makin my Mind Up to right to Youfor of Coarse i Says j ernes will think me too forrad butthis bein Lcep yere i thout ide Make a Plunge speshialyas her grashius madjesty as Set the Exampel of Popin thequeshton, leastways to all Them as dont Want to Bee oldMadcs all their blessed lives, so my Deer Jemes if yowwant a Pardoner for Better or for wus nows Your Timedont think i Behave despicable for tis my Luv for yu asmakes Me take this Stepp. please to Burn this Letter when Red and excusethe scralls and Blotches witch is Caused by my Teersi remain till deth Yure on HappyVallentine jane you No tvho. poscrip nex Sunday Is my Sunday out And i shall be Att thecorner of Wite lion Street pentonvil at a quawter pasSevu. Wen this U. C. remember Mee. j-g- ORTHOGRAPHY. 13. Now, to proceed with Orthography, wc may remark, tliat A letter is the least part of a word. Of a comic letter an instance has already been given. Dr. Johnsons letter to Lord Chesterfield is a Capitalletter. The letters of the Alphabet are the representatives ofarticulate sounds. The Alphabet is a Republic of Letters. There are many things in this world erroneously as wellas vulgarly compared to bricks. In the case of theletters of the Alphabet, however, the comparison is just;they constitute the fabric of a language, and grammar isthe mortar. The wonder is that there should be so few of 14 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. them. The English letters are twenty-six in is nothing like beginning at the beginning; and weshall now therefore enumerate them, with the view also ofrendering their insertion subsidiary to mythological in-struction, in conformity with the plan on which someaccount of the
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