SiÖ ART OF READING AND WRITING Written Pronounced Written Pronounced Written Prónottñced Thanet, Tannet or Tenori Versailles, Versails Worcester, Wuster Theobalds, Tibbetts Ursula. Us/y Waltham, Wallum Thomas,Torunlus Walter, Water Westminster (restatingar Tonester, Tosseter Warwick, Warrick Zachary, Zaccry Toulon, Tooloon Note, That I have here set down only such names of persons and places as ate common, and frequently occur in conversation, at least in the city of London, and in writing in our age. It would have been an endless task to mention all the little villages or towns in England, and other nations, that are corruptly pro, nounced, or whose spelling differs from the customary sound. Names of places whose common pnonunciation ends in ich, are written wich, as Norwidy Sandwich, Ipswhich, Harwich, Greenwich. if it ends in um, they are written ham, as Tottenham, Durham, Shoreham: Berry is written bury, as Shrews-. buiy, Tnoksbury: Boro, is written borough, or burgh ; as Scarborough, Edinborough, Edinburgh, Hamburgh: Usi is written Aural, os Penshursl, Brokenhurst; Ood is written wood, as Burnt-wood, Heywood. As for the letters that compose proper names of places which are very un- common, as well as the sur-names of mon, 'tis impossible to tell exactly what they are, or how to place them in spelling, without particular information; sometimes because their original derivation or true composition is far from the present sound of them, and sometimes because every person takes a liberty to spell his own name as he pleases : So Reynolds is a frequent surname; but it is also spelt Reinolds, or Rainoldr, or Raynolds. So( ovum is spelt also Thomson, or Thompson, or Tómpson, according to the skill or humour of the writer, of some superstitious or affected reverence, to the custom of their ancestors, whea ,her true or false. TABLE X. -4 Table of Words joined together in common Dis= course, andpronounced very differentfromtheir true Spelling. iT is contracted by leaving out the i, as 'tis for it is ; 'twos for it was. Not is contracted in these words ; can't for 'can not; mayn't for may not; slaa'nt for shall not ; coodn't for could not; shood'nt for shouldnot; woodn't for would not; won't for will net; 'tise for it is not. Have is often contracted into ha, as ha' done for havedone; pa'n'tfor have not. Give is contracted thus, gi'mmee for give me; gee't'er for give it her ; ge'n ye for given you. Good is contracted thus ; gaffer for goodfather; grammes for good-mother ; goodee for good-wife. With is contracted thus ; wi'mmee for withme ; wee'ye.for with you; goodbw'y for God be with you. You is thus contracted,j beset ye for be not you ; won't .ye for will not you; cunl'tee for come to you; how'dee for how do you ; de'e no for do you know; yea' been for you have been: hers is thus contracted ; tak'n'for take him; gee't'n for give it him ; gee'nsum for give him some. . Them is thus contracted ; Coll'uno for cell them; a'tr'um for after them; gee't'um for give it therit.
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