bly the sound he meant would be better represented by _boo_.

P. 13 (12). The author here recommends the distinction both of sound
and symbol of _j_ and _v_ as consonants, and _i_ and _u_ as vowels,
and proposes that we should call _j_ _jod_ or _je_, and _v_ _vau_ or
_ve_, and not single _u_, "as now they doe" (p. 16), and _w_ he would
call _wau_ or _we_, and moreover he places them in his alphabet on the
same page. If this proposal was originally his own, it is curious that
the name _ve_ should have been adopted, though not the _we_ for _w_.
Ben Jonson points out the double power of _i_ and _v_ as both
consonant and vowel, but he does not attempt to make them into
separate letters as Hume does.

P. 15 (12). He gives as an anomaly of the South that while the _d_ is
inserted before _g_ in hedge, bridge, etc., it is omitted in age,
suage, etc. He does not see that the short vowel requires a double
consonant to prevent it from being pronounced long.

P. 21 (6). He disputes the possibility of a final _e_, separated from
a preceding vowel by a consonant, having any effect whatever in
altering the sound of the preceding vowel, and recommends the use of a
diphthong to express the sound required; as, hoep for hope, fier for
fire, bied for bide, befoer for before, maed for made, etc. He
uniformly throughout follows this rule.

P. 22 (5). Hume here accents difficultie on the antepenultimate
instead of the first syllable.

P. 23 (7). He puts down outrage as an instance of two distinct words
joined by a hyphen, which is the derivation given by Ash in his
dictionary, in strange obliviousness of the French word _outrage_.

P. 27 (1, 6). _T_ is omitted after _s_ in the second person singular
of the verb, and so no distinction is made between the second and the
third persons; thus, thou wrytes, and at p. 32 thou was, and thou hes.

P. 29 (7). The supposition that the apostrophe 's as a mark of the
possessive case is a segment of his, a question which has been lately
revived, is here denied.

P. 34. In this last chapter on Punctuation, which the author styles
"of Distinctiones," no mention whatever is made of the "semicolon,"
though it occurs frequently in the MS., as, for instance, p. 30, cap.
6. This stop, according to Herbert, was first used by Richard Grafton
in _The Byble_ printed in 1537: it occurs in the Dedication. Henry
Denham, an English printer