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The English Alphabet, Expressing the number, order, denomination, and figure, or Charactericall forme of the Letters, as well Capitall as Small, according to their use in the English Tongue: In the three most usuall impressions appertaining to most Tongues in Europe.
There be in the English Tongue foure and twenty Letters, as here followeth.
The old English print. | Their names, or denominations. | The Latin and Italica prints now chiefly in use. | ||||
Capitall. | Small. | |||||
A | a | a | Cap. | Small. | Cap. | Small. |
B | b | be | A | a | A | a |
C | c | ce | B | b | B | b |
D | d | de | C | c | C | c |
E | e | e | D | d | D | d |
F | f | ef | E | e | E | e |
G | g | ge | F | f | F | f |
H | h | * ach | G | g | G | g |
I | i | i | H | h | H | h |
K | k | ka | I | i | I | i |
L | l | el | K | k | K | k |
M | m | em | L | l | L | l |
N | n | en | M | m | M | m |
O | o | o | N | n | N | n |
P | p | pe | O | o | O | o |
Q | q | qu, or kuh | P | p | P | p |
R | rr | er, or ar | Q | q | Q | q |
S | ss | es | R | r | R | r |
T | t | te | S | ss | S | ss |
V | v u | u | T | t | T | t |
W | w | * double u | V | v u | V | v u |
X | x | * ex, or ix | W | w | W | w |
Y | y | * wi | X | x | X | x |
Z | z | * ezard, or better edsard. | Y | y | Y | y |
Z | z | Z | z |
Whereof these six, a, e, i, o, u, and y, be Vowels, all the rest be Consonants.
Which of these be invariable, or have alwayes the force of Vowels, and which sometime degenerate into Consonants, and when, see further in our Treatise of Vowels in particu∣lar. This we have onely set downe for children, à primo ingressu or their first entrance.
The Asteriskes denote those Letters, so marked, have somewhat peculiar, and are parti∣cularly treated of more then the other Consonants.