of Joining the Letters, and forming easy Words.

Plate III.

HE PREPOSITIONS AND TERMINATIONS,

Or Beginnings and Endings of Polysyllables.

ough we are able to express intelligibly any word or sentence mbination of the characters, as representatives of sound, yet, he words were to be written letter by letter, however comhe alphabet may be, it would be too tedious, and not answer rimary object proposed, which is that of keeping pace with a er; therefore, to abridge the labour of writing, the most essenrepositions and terminations have been introduced, as in these sts the chief power of language, and consequently the source of nerable abbreviations.|| These are extremely simple and easy, he alphabetical characters are used to denote them; and the letwhich each represents is the first consonant, or most natural exsion for its respective prepositions and terminations. They are inguished from consonants and from one another, according to the following. The prepositions and terminations should be comted to memory in the same manner as the alphabetical words. There are more than seven thousand words in the English language beginning one or other of these prepositions; and above eleven thousand words in the same que ending with one or the other of these terminations.

Method of Joining the Letters, and forming easy Words.

OF THE PREPOSITIONS AND TERMINATIONS, Or Beginnings and Endings of Polysyllables.

Although we are able to express intelligibly any word or sentence by a combination of the characters, as representatives of sound, yet, if all the words were to be written letter by letter, however complete the alphabet may be, it would be too tedious, and not answer the primary object proposed, which is that of keeping pace with a speaker; therefore, to abridge the labour of writing, the most essential prepositions and terminations have been introduced, as in these consists the chief power of language, and consequently the source of innumerable abbreviations. These are extremely simple and easy, as the alphabetical characters are used to denote them; and the letter which each represents is the first consonant, or most natural expression for its respective prepositions and terminations. They are distinguished from consonants and from one another, according to the rules following. The prepositions and terminations should be committed to memory in the same manner as the alphabetical words.

There are more than seven thousand words in the English language beginning with one or other of these prepositions; and above eleven thousand words in the same tongue ending with one or the other of these terminations.