are ptbhouticed hef-chialy celef-chtal^fuf^
chian^ &c, : alfo in courtier ^ frontier ^ and
other Words fo terniinated. ^

. This pronuntiatibfl is atfb fieaVd fre-*
1q[uently before -^^yjr, and ^uoUs^^^beau--
iebuSf duteous^ virtuoSls^ prdnouiiCed beau'»^
cbedus, dU'-checiUSy vir-^chudus ; and even
covetouf, co^e-chou's: alfo bfefb'tc --eum, as
periofletlm^ pronounced pertofcheiifri.
• «

Tb has. two founds; one hatd, as iti
thick^ thin^ faith ; the other foft^ as in
Itbe/i, tben, breathe. Thefe were written
by our Saxon aneeftors with two diftind:
charadlers : for the hard th tKey ufed the
mark p ; for the foft, %. There was a con-

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vsnience in this, which ought not to have ,
been relinquiihed.
TH Hani,

t. TA is hard when it begins a word^
as tAink, tbijile^ &c. except in the
following : tban^ tiat, tie, tbee^
their J tbem, then, thence, there, tbeje,
they, thine, this, thither, tbofe, thou,
though, thus, thy.
%. Th is hard when it ends a word» as
death. See. except in beneathi booth,
to mouth , fmooth , to foot h, to Jheatb,
wreath, uncloath, tofeeth : but mofli
of thefe ought to be written with
the final e, to mouthe, tojheathe, to
foothe, that they may be the bet-
ter diftinguifhed from the fubftan-
tives mouth, Jheath, footh, which
have the th hard; and then they
would fall under the regular ana-
logy of th foft : even to fmoatbe
were perhaps better fo written,
though the 2Ld]ed:iyc/mooth has the
th foft alfo. Tofeethe ought to have
the e, to diftinguiih it from/eeth, the

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Chap. VIII. CoNsoN/\NTs. 13.3

third perfon Angular of to fee ; and
uncloath fliould be written unclothe.
