ts of E. Gram._, p. 222. But how it was ever found out, that in
these words we accent only the vowel _u_, and in such as _hunter_ and
_bluntly_, some one of the consonants only, he does not inform us.

OBS. 17.--As might be expected, it is not well agreed among those who
accent single consonants and vowels, _what particular letter_ should
receive the stress and the mark. The word or syllable "_ant_," for example,
is marked "ant" by Alger, Bacon, and others, to enforce the _n_; "ant" by
Frost, Putnam, and others, to enforce the _t_; "~ant" by Murray, Russell,
and others, to show, as they say, "_the accent on the consonant_!" But, in
"ANTLER," Dr. Johnson accented the _a_; and, to mark the same
pronunciation, Worcester now writes, "~ANTLER;" while almost any
prosodist, in scanning, would mark this word "_~antl~er_" and call it a
_trochee_.[498] Churchill, who is in general a judicious observer, writes
thus: "The _leading feature_ in the English language, on which _it's_
melody both in prose and verse _chiefly depends_, is _it's accent_. Every
word in it of _more than one syllable_ has one of _it's_ syllables
distinguished by this from the rest; the accent being in some cases on the
vowel, in others on the _consonant that closes the syllable_; on the vowel,
when it has _it's_ long sound; on the consonant, when the vowel is
short."--_Churchill's New Gram._, p. 181. But to this, as a rule of
accentuation, no attention is in fact paid nowadays. Syllables that have
long vowels not final, very properly take the sign of stress on or after a
consonant or a mute vowel; as, =angel, ch=amber, sl=ayer, b=eadroll,
sl=eazy, sl=e=eper, sl=e=eveless, l=ively, m=indful, sl=ightly,
sl=iding, b=oldness, gr=ossly, wh=olly, =useless.--See _Worcester's
Dict._

OBS. 18.--It has been seen, that Murray's principles of quantity were
greatly altered by himself, after the first appearance of his grammar. To
have a full and correct view of them, it is necessary to notice something
more than his main text, as revised, with which all his amenders content
themselves, and which he himself thought sufficient for his Abridgement.
The following positions, which, in some of his revisals, he added to the
large grammar, are therefore cited:--

(1.) "Unaccented syllables are generally short: as, '~admire, boldn~ess,
sinn~er.' But to this rule there are _many_ exceptions: as, 'als=o, ex=ile,
gangr=ene, ump=ire, f=oretaste,' &c.

(2.) "When the accent is on th