84 ART OF READING, AND WRITING CHAP. XXIV.Catalogues of Words pronounced or written in such a Way as cannot be reduced -to Rules, &c. IN learning to readand write English, we shall find several words whose accent, pronunciation, and spelling, are not easy to be brought under any certain rules ; and these can only be learnt by long observation, or by tables, or catalogues drawn up for this end. . There are several other things also that relate to reading and writing, which cannot well be taught otherwise than by tables ; such are abbreviations and contractions in writing and in speaking, whereby two or three letters are to signify one or two words or more, as A. M. or M. A. Master of arts. So numbers, as one, two, three, &c. which are marked with letters, as I, II, 111, &c. or with particular characters, as 1, 2, 3, &c. Va- rious other letters and marks also are used to signify whole . words, as 1. for pounds; oz. for ounces ; &, or $(, for and; whiehh May be learnt by the following table.
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