jT* has properly a hard found, fuch as
ilB heard in take^ trujly &c. : but in par-
ticular fituations it affumes other powers,
fecmingly ^^ty remote from its nature*

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T like stt.
ST is thus pronounced in terminations
where it is followed by / unaccented, and
another vowel ; as before ia^ in militia ^par'^
tial, tertian, Jatiate ; before ie, ill patient,
patience ; before io, in nation , cautious; be-
fore iu in cymatium (an architeftural term)«
Satiety does not fall under this rule, the
/ beiiig accented, Jatiety ; and here the
/ ought, I think, to be hard, in order to
keep the word as diftindl as may be from
Jbciety: but this point has been difputed.
In words formed by the addition of a
fyllable to the termination -ty, as migh'^
tier, migbtieji, twentieth, pitietb, pitied,
the t retains its proper found ; as, in my
opinion, it ought alfo to do in the words
enumerated in the clofe of the follow-^
ing paragraph, befiial^ beauteous, &c»

T like cnfoft.
