ters themselves are spoken of:

"My eye can trace divinely true,
In this dark curve a little Mu;
And here, you see, there _seems_ to lie
The ruins of a Doric Xi."--_Ibidem_.

The critical reader will see that "_seems_" should be _seem_, to agree with
its nominative "_ruins_."

[89] Lily, reckoning without the H, J, or V, speaks of the Latin letters as
"_twenty-two_;" but _says nothing_ concerning their names. Ruddiman, Adam,
Grant, Gould, and others, who include the H, J, and V, rightly state the
number to be "_twenty-five_;" but, concerning their names, are likewise
_entirely silent_. Andrews and Stoddard, not admitting the K, teach thus:
"The letters of the Latin language are _twenty-four_. They _have the same
names_ as the corresponding characters in English."--_Andrews and
Stoddard's Latin Gram._, p. 1. A later author speaks thus: "The Latin
Alphabet consists of _twenty-five_ letters, _the same in name_ and form as
the English, but without the _w_."--_Bullions's Latin Gram._, p. 1. It
would probably be nearer to the truth, to say, "The Latin Alphabet, _like
the French_, has no W; it consists of twenty-five letters, which are _the
same in name_ and form _as the French_." Will it be pretended that the
French names and the English do not differ?

[90] The Scotch _Iz_ and the Craven _Izzet_, if still in use anywhere, are
names strictly local, not properly English, nor likely to spread. "IZZET,
the letter Z. This is probably the corruption of _izzard_, the old and
common name for the letter, though I know not, says _Nares_, on what
authority."--_Glossary of Craven, w. Izzet._ "_Z z, zed_, more commonly
called _izzard_ or _uzzard_, that is, _s hard_."--_Dr. Johnson's Gram._, p.
1.

"And how she sooth'd me when with study sad
I labour'd on to reach the final Zad."--_Crabbe's Borough_, p. 228.

[91] William Bolles, in his new Dictionary, says of the letter Z: "Its
sound is uniformly that of a _hard_ S." The _name_, however, he pronounces
as I do; though he writes it not _Zee_ but ze; giving not the _orthography_
of the name, as he should have done, but a mere index of its pronunciation.
Walker proves by citations from Professor Ward and Dr. Wallis, that these
authors considered the _sharp_ or _hissing_ sound of _s_ the "_hard_"
sound; and the _flat_ sound, like that of _z_, its "_soft_" sound. See his
_Dictionary_, 8vo, p. 53.

[92] Dr. Webster died in 1843. Most of this work was written while