Rule 5. Words with proper Diph╌thongs, or two Vowels sounded together, and Vowels sounding like diph╌thongs. Viz.
Ai / ap / aie for ay.
- Aid
- laid
- maid
- said
- fail
- frail
The Best & plainest English spelling-book containing all the different words, syllables, & letters in the old English character, of the three first usual school-books, (the Horn-Book, the A B C with the catechism, & the Primer) & more too.
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- pain
- rain
- train
- vain
- faint
- saint
- faith
- day
- saith
- days
- lay
- may
- pray
- say
- slay
- way
- waies
- saints
au. aw.
- Paul
- laud
- jaws
- law
- laws
- saw
- shawms.
- awe the e not heard.
- taught the gh not heard,
- faults / vault / the l not pronounced.
ee.
- See
- wee
- yee
- flee
- free
- tree
- three.
- So be
- he
- me
- she
- we
- ye.
- Deed
- feed
- heed
- seed
- cheek
- meek
- speed
- need
- needs
- been
- green.
- Kneel knees the k not pronounced.
- Queen
- seen
- deep
- keep
- sheep
- sleep
- teeth
- fleeth
- feet
- meet
- sweet
- streets.
- So Dear
- ears
- dearth
- fear
- clear
- hear
- chief
- grief
- priests
- yeild.
- Here the last e not sounded.
And i. ie. ey & y. being in many syllables short, must be sounded as ee / as in Cit╌ies / God╌li╌ly. mon╌ey. In spea∣king at least, if not in spelling: and if the one, why not the other?Th•• 〈…〉〈…〉 R••••e in •••• ••••i••g••me other Languag••••.
ei. ey.
- eight the gh not sounded.
- prey.
- eye eyes the last e not sounded.
eu. ew.
- dews
- new
- shew
- Eu╌nuch the ch like k.
oi. oy.
- voice the e not heard.
- oyl
- loyns
- joy.
oo
- choose.
- So whose / the e not heard.
- too
- moon
- soon
- fools
- look.
- So to
- who
- do
- should
- would.
- through the gh not heard.
- two the w not heard.
ou. ow.
- hour the h not heard.
- our
- four
- pour
- proud
- clouds
- fourth
- bound
- found
- round
- wounds
- mouth
- now
- owl
- fowls
- how
- bow
- vow
- down
- drown.
- doubt the b not heard.
- house showres the e not heard.
- drought the gh not sounded.