DZ ART OF REATING AND WRITING. Latin, as publick, public; musick, music ; logick, logic ; pe- dantick, pedantic. 5. e 1 is sometimes written for l e, at the end of some words, as cattle, cattel, battle, battei. 0. o a is turned sometimes into long o, and e final, as coal, cole ; cloak, duke ; smoak, smoke; groan, grone ; shoar, shore. 7. o r is written where our was wont to be written, as labour, labor ; honour, honor ; favour, favor ; conqueror, con- queror. 8. Among other letters which are now-a-days omitted by some writers, p between m and t is often left out ; as presump- tion, presumtion ; attempt, attemt; so in assumption, contempt, contemptuous, temptation, &c. 9. ph is changed intof many times, as phansy, phanatic, phantasttc, phantom, phrensy, phlegm, sulphur, prophane; for which are written,fancy, fanatic, Src. 10. que is changed into k, or ke; as barque, traffiqur, masque, ,Masque, relique, chequer, casquet, musquet, are often written, bark, traffic*, lc. 11. reor er are written indifferently in these words theatre, or theater ; so metre, meter ; centre, center ; sepulchre, se- pulcher. 12. s is sometimes turned into z, in such words as razor, scissors, brasier, losenge, exercise, chastise, devise, enterprise ; which may be written razor, scissors, exercise, enterprise, Sic. There are also many other words where a is made fre- quently to supply the place of s, but it is by no means proper, though it is very common ; as in dispense, suspence, scence, pre- tence, &c. all which words ought to end in se, as dispense, sus- pense, sense, Bic. 13. ti, or ci, are written in these words, ancient, vicious, gratious, pretious, spatious, Sic.,5asancient, vicious, &c. 14.. ugh may be left out in though, tito', through, thro', and in thought, brought, Sic. with an apostrophe in the room of them, as tho't, bro't, Sic. 15. ugh is sometimeschanged for w, as in yew, plow, bow, thorow, enow ; for yeugh, plough, bough, thorough, enough. Upon the word enough there is this observation made, that, when it signifies a sufficient quantity, it is written always with ugh, and pronounced enuf, as there is wine enough. But when it signifies a sufficient number, it is oftentimes both pronounced and written enow ; as, There are bottles enow. 10. ul, or wl, is turned into ll in these words, rowl, roll, porül, poll, scrowl, scroll, controul, controll. 17. Many words are written with u after a vowel, which
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