ibilants; 5. ng, as in _king_; 6. the aspirate h. In all,
twenty-four.

1. w as in _wet_. 13. th as in _thin_.
2. y -- _yet_. 14. th -- _thine_.
3. m -- _man_. 15. g -- _gun_.
4. n -- _not_. 16. k -- _kind_.
5. l -- _let_. 17. s -- _sin_.
6. r -- _run_. 18. z -- _zeal_.
7. p -- _pate_. 19. sh -- _shine_.
8. b -- _ban_. 20. z -- _azure, glazier_.
9. f -- _fan_. 21. ch -- _chest_.
10. v -- _van_. 22. j -- _jest_.
11. t -- _tin_. 23. ng -- _king_.
12. d -- _din_. 24. h -- _hot_.

s. 150. Some writers would add to these the additional sound of the _['e]
ferm['e]_ of the French; believing that the vowel in words like _their_ and
_vein_ has a different sound from the vowel in words like _there_ and
_vain_. For my own part I cannot detect such a difference either in my own
speech or that of my neighbours; although I am far from denying that in
certain _dialects_ of our language such may have been the case. The
following is an extract from the "Danish Grammar for Englishmen," by
Professor Rask, whose eye, in the matter in question, seems to have misled
his ear; "The _['e] ferm['e]_, or _close ['e]_, is very frequent in Danish,
but scarcely perceptible in English; unless in such words as _their_,
_vein_, _veil_, which appear to sound a little different from _there_,
_vain_, _vale_."

s. 151. The vowels being twelve, the diphthongs four, and the consonantal
sounds twenty-four, we have altogether as many as forty sounds, some being
so closely allied to each other as to be mere modifications, and others
being combinations rather than simple sounds; all, however, agreeing in
requiring to be expressed by letters or by combinations of letters, and to
be distinguished from each other. This enables us to appreciate--

s. 152. _The insufficiency of the English alphabet._--

a. _In respect to the vowels._--Notwithstanding the fact that the sounds of
the a in _father_, _fate_, and _fat_, and of the o and the aw in _note_,
_not_, and _bawl_, are modifications of a and o respectively, we have still
_six_ vowel sounds specifically distinct, for which (y being a consonant
rather than a vowel) we have but _five_ signs. The u in _duck_,
specifically distinct from the u in _bull_, has no specifically distinct
sign to represent it.

b. _In respect to th