. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ided into mutes and semi-vowels. The mutes cannot be sounded at all withoutthe aid of a vowel. Like young ladies just comeout, they are silent as long as you let them have compared them, on account of theirname, to the Original Good Woman; but howjoining her to anything except to her head againwould have cured her of her dumbness, it is noteasy to see. B, p, t, d, h, and c and ^ hard, arethe letters called mutes, or, as some have deno-minated them, black letters. The semi-vowels, which are^ I, m, n
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ided into mutes and semi-vowels. The mutes cannot be sounded at all withoutthe aid of a vowel. Like young ladies just comeout, they are silent as long as you let them have compared them, on account of theirname, to the Original Good Woman; but howjoining her to anything except to her head againwould have cured her of her dumbness, it is noteasy to see. B, p, t, d, h, and c and ^ hard, arethe letters called mutes, or, as some have deno-minated them, black letters. The semi-vowels, which are^ I, m, n, r, v, s, Xyz, and c and ff soft, have an imperfect sound ofthemselves. Well ! half a loaf is better than nobread. L, m, 11, r, are further distinguished by thename of liquids. Like certain other liquids theyare good for mixing, that is to say, they readilyunite with other consonants; and flow, as it were,into their sounds. ORTHOGRAPHY. 23 The specific gravity of liquids can only be ren-dered amusing by comical figures. The gravity,too, of a solid is generally the more y^- S_ ^t MUTES AND LlftUIDS. 24 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. A diphthong is the union of two vowels in onesound, as ea in heavy, cu in Meux, ou in stout A triphthong is a similar union of three vowels,as eau in the word beau; a term applied to dan-dies, and addressed to geese: probably becausethey are birds of a feather. A proper diphthong is that in which the soundis formed by both the vowels : as, aw in awkward,ou in lout.
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