Wright's Orthography

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Excerpt from Wright's Orthography: A Hand-Book of Analytical Orthography Designed to Teach the Philosophy of Orthography and OrthoepyA letter which represents a sound most frequently gives name to the sound.A long - The. Vowel sound as heard in mate, age, weight, they, is the first, long sound of a we therefore name the sound a long. But it will be perceived that this sound is not always expressed by a for the vowel sound in weight is exactly the same as in mate and in this instance the vowel sound is expressed by ei instead of a but as the letters ei represent this sound only in a few words, they together may be considered a substitute for a long - so also ey.A short - The vowel sound as heard in man, hat, is a short sound, and is always represented by u we there fore denominate the sound a short.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.