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Title: A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy

Author: James Elphinston

Release Date: May 25, 2005 [EBook #15901]

Language: English

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A
MINNIATURE
OV
_INGLISH ORTHOGGRAPHY_.

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TO'
DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES,
DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES
_OV WALES_;
DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES
_OV YORK_:
ONNORED AZ UNDOUTED
PATRONS AND PATTERNS
OV EVVERY PROPRIETY:
DHIS MINNIATURE

Ov Inglish Orthoggraphy,

_UMBLY HOPES UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE;_
FROM DHE BENIGN PERMISSION
OV BEING SO INSCRIBED,
BY DHEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES
DEVOTED SERVANT,
_James Elphinston_.

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A
MINNIATURE
OV

Inglish Orthoggraphy:

DEDDICATED TO'
_DHE PRINCE AND PRINCES OF WALES_,
DHE DUKE AND DUTCHES OV YORK:

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BY JAMES ELPHINSTON.

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_LONDON_:

SOLD (Price 1 Shilling and 6 Pence) BY
W. RITCHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHAINGE; T. BOOSEY, N. 4,
BRAUD-STREET, DHARE; F. AND C. RIVVINGTON,
N. 62; ST. PAULS CHURCHYARD; J. DEIGHTON,
N. 325, HOLBORN; W. CLARK,
N. 38, BOND-STREET.

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1795.

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CONTENTS.

1. _Introduccion_
2. _Orthoggraphy ascertained in dhe vowels, and dheir serviles_
3. _Vocal substitucion, licenced and licencious_
4. _Ov open and shut vowels_
5. _Ov dhe aspirates and dheir insertives_
6. _Ov redundant serviles_
7. _Ov impracticabel articulacion_
8. _Ov false aspiracion_
9. _Dhe guttural aspirate lost, or transmuted by moddern organs_
10. _Old _R_ aspirate_
11. _Oddher antiquated idellers_
12. _Final fantoms, or dubblers ov final forms_
13. _Oddher falsifiers, medial or final; licquids or sibbilants;
particcularly _TI_ for a sibbilacion_
14. _Dhe orthoggraphy ov propper names_
15. _Dhe fundamental principel ov orthoggraphy_
16. _Th