Orthoepia Anglicana: or, the first principall part of the English grammar teaching the art of right speaking and pronouncing English, with certaine exact rules of orthography, and rules of spelling or combining of syllables, and directions for keeping of stops or points between sentence and sentence. A work in it selfe absolute, and never knowne to be accomplished by any before ... Methodically composed by the industry and observation of Simon Daines schoolemaster of Hintlesham in Suffs.

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.