9O Ant OF READING AND WRITING.. 3. Where 'g has a soft sound after a short vowel, d generally must go before it; as badger, hedge, ridge, lodge, -cudgel. 4. Wheresoever g is sounded hard after a long vowel in the end of a word, ne must follow it, as plague, intrigue, prorogue ; and in all foreign words, as catalogue, synagogue, ic. 5. gh is written instead of g in ghess, ghittar, aghast, ghastly, ghost; and gu in the words following, guard, guest, guide, guile, guilt, guinea, guise, and their compounds and de. tivatives, as beguile, disguise, guilty, 8ío. 6. k at the end of a word after a short vowel, always takes c before it, as crack, knock, neck, sick, duck. 7. Double 1 is always used at the end of words of one syllable after a single vowel, as call, fall, fill, smell, roll, poll. S. Double s most usually ends a word after a vowel that sounds short, as pass, goodness, miss, toss : except a few com- mon words of one syllable ; as, as, was, yes, is, his, this, us, thuss: except also when s or es is added to a word, as horse, horses ; kiss, kisses ; despise, despises ; die, dies. 9. A long s is never used at the end of a word, nor just after a shorts, in writing or printing. The sound of us, at the end of a word of more than one. syllable, is written ous, in words purely English, as righteous, pitious, cautious, 4c. The observations which cannot be reduced to any certain rules, are these : 1. Observe when a single vowel is sounded, whether the word be written with a diphthong or no, as-bread, heart, have a diphthong; but fed, part, have not. 2. Observe the words where ch has the proper English sound, as child, patch, such; and where it is sounded. hard, and written instead of k, as school, stomach, character, &.c. or where it is sounded like sh, as in French words chaise, ma- chine, chagrine, 4c. a. Observe where sc is written instead of c soft, or s; as science, disciple, scent, ascent, conscience, 4c. 4. Observe where ph is written instead of f, asphysic, phi- losophy, triumph, camphire, &c. á. Observe where que is written instead of k, asoblique, antique, masque, 8íc. 6. Observe where rh is written for r, as rheum, rhetoric, myrrh, catarrh, 8(c. 7. Observe how the sound of shi, before a vowel, is writ- ten ; whether with ci, as vicious; or sci, as omniscient; or shi, as fashion; or si, as vision; or sii, as passion ; or ti, as condi- tion. But remember where that sh sounds hard like zh, it is always written with a single s, as vision, decision, occasion, confusion.
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