In fome foreign words we find Ph pronounced like f. This letter is, in the english language, fharp or flat; in dutch it is always fharp. Se-dert, fince. Stra-len, beams. V is flat f, and bears the fame relation to it as b does to p. This letter founds like the english w in froward, well, wish. Worst, faufage. Wond, wound. Wel, well. Was wax. Wees, orphan.. Wie, who. Sounds like ks, and is only ufed in words and nouns proper deriving from the learned languages. Xer-xes, Xerxes. Xe-no-phon, Xenophon. Ch, as we have already obferved, found like g; it is therefore necesfary to know the words, which are fpelled with g. They are to befound in the following list. All others have ch: Ik mogt, I might. Plegtig, folemn. Regts, righthanded. Zigtbaar, vifible. HOMONY MIES, with are Ipelled with g or ch, and have different fignifications or acceptions. Nog, ftiil. Slagten, to kill. Wigt, weight. Geflacht, gendre. Noch, ni. Slachten, to resemble. The compounded words are spelled like the fimple on's, viz: tweedragt, discord; lichtftraal, beam; maanlicht, moonlight; and not: maanligt, ligtstraal. LIST. of words, fpelled with double e. The plural of fubftantives, ending in the fingular in eel, viz: deel, party; deelen, parties. Alleenig, alone. Alreede, already. Beeren, bears. Breede, large, broad. Deegen, dough. Dweeper, fanatic. Eeden, oaths. Eene, one. Eeren, to honour. Fleemen, to flatter. Geepen, certain fish. Geeren, to lean. fpelled with e or ee, and which have different Beete, red beet. Geene, none. Heelen, to cure. Heeren, gentlemen. Keeten, faltworks. acceptions. Bete, bit. Gene, the latter. Helen, to conceal. Heren, armies. Keelen,narrow piece of board. Kelen, throats. Kweeken, to cultivate. Leeder, more forrowful. Leenen, to lend. Meeren, to moor. Reede, road. Steenen, ftones. Veege, fatal. Weeken, to fteep. Weezen, orphans. Keten, chain. Rede, fpeech. Scheele,feparation of the hair. Scheele, fquinteyed. |