The Grammar of English Grammars, page 348 by Gould Brown
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g to sounds of every description, and that with more than ordinary attention," declares in a recent and expensive work, that "in every language we find the vowels _incorrectly classed_"; and, in order to give to "the simple elements of English utterance" a better explanation than others have furnished, he devotes to a new analysis of our alphabet the ample space of twenty octavo pages, besides having several chapters on subjects connected with it. And what do his twenty pages amount to? I will give the substance of them in ten lines, and the reader may judge. He does not tell us how many elementary sounds there are; but, professing to arrange the vowels, long and short, "in the order in which they are naturally found," as well as to show of the consonants that the mutes and liquids form correspondents in regular pairs, he presents a scheme which I abbreviate as follows. VOWELS: 1. A, as in _=all_ and _what, or o, as in orifice and _n~ot_; 2. _U--=urn_ and _hut, or _l=ove_ and _c~ome_; 3. _O--v=ote_ and _ech~o_; 4. _A--=ah_ and _h~at_; 5. _A--h=azy_, no short sound; 6. _E--=e=el_ and _it_; 7. _E--m=ercy_ and _m~et_; 8. _O--pr=ove_ and _ad~o_; 9. _OO--t=o=ol_ and _f~o~ot_; 10. _W--vo=w_ and _la~w_; 11. _Y_--(like the first _e_--) _s=yntax_ and _duty. DIPHTHONGS: 1. _I_--as _ah-ee_; 2. _U_--as _ee-oo_; 3. _OU_--as _au-oo_. CONSONANTS: 1. Mutes,--c or _s, f, h, k_ or _q, p, t, th sharp, sh_; 2. Liquids,--l, which has no corresponding mute, and _z, v, r, ng, m, n, th flat_ and j, which severally correspond to the eight mutes in their order; 3. Subliquids,--_g hard, b_, and d. See "Music of Nature," by William Gardiner, p. 480, and after.
OBS. 13.--Dr. Rush comes to the explanation of the powers of the letters as the confident first revealer of nature's management and wisdom; and hopes to have laid the foundation of a system of instruction in reading and oratory, which, if adopted and perfected, "will bege