 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there be no superfluous letters used in spelling ; that is, no letter that is not sounded ; and this alphabet, by six new letters, provides, that there... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1880
...that is not sounded, (2) that every letter should be confined to one sound, and, (3) that there should be no distinct sounds in the language without letters to express them. To carry out his reform he invented a new alphabet, contemptuously dismissing six of the present letters... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there be no superfluous letters used in spelling ; that is, no letter that is not sounded ; and this alphabet, by six new letters, provides, that there... | |
 | 1859 - 646 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that, wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there be no superfluous letters used iu spelling, that is, no letter that is not sounded ; and this alphabet, by six new letters, provides... | |
 | English language - 1869 - 472 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there...not sounded; and this alphabet, by six new letters [meaning (A, a, sh, q, th, dh) ], provides that there be no distinct sounds in the language, without... | |
 | 1875 - 474 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there...letters used in spelling ; ie no letter that is not souuded ; and this let, by six new letters [meaning (A, 9, sh, q, th, dh)], provides that there be... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1880 - 624 pages
...that is not sounded, (2) that every letter should be confined to one sound, and, (3) that there should be no distinct sounds in the language without letters to express them. To carry out his reform he invented a new alphabet, contemptuously dismissing six of the present letters... | |
 | Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet - Americanisms - 1926 - 744 pages
...letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company, their sound is always the same. It is also intended, that there be no ¡uferftunn letters used in spelling; that is, no letter that is not sounded; and this alphabet, by... | |
 | 624 pages
...that is not sounded, (2) that every letter should be confined to one sound, and, (3) that there should be no distinct sounds in the language without letters to express them. To carry out his reform he invented a new alphabet, contemptuously dismissing six of the present letters... | |
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Thus the g has no longer two different sounds, which occasioned confusion, but is, as every letter ought to be, confined to one. The same is to be observed in all the letters, vowels, and consonants, that wherever they are met with, or in whatever company,... 