Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.

Directions to Read and Spell truely.

OBserve, that the first Letter of all pro∣per Names and beginning of Sen∣tences are to be greater Letters.

A Dipthong is the sounding of any two or more Vowels together, without any Consonant between them; they be com∣monly used in Words of one Syllable, there are nine Dipthongs.

• ai, or ay, as in maid, may.
• au, or aw, as Laud, Law.
• ea, as earth:
• ee, as seed.
• ei, as heir.
• eu, or ew, as feud, grew.
• oi, or oy, as coi, boy, joy.
• oo, as good.
• ou, or ow, as loud, low.

A Consonant is a Letter that maketh a sound with a Vowel.

A Syllable is a perfect sound, made sometimes of Vowels only, and sometimes of Vowels and Consonants; no Syllable hath above eight Letters in it, as Strength; neither hath any Word above seven Sylla∣bles

in the English Tongue, as Re-con-ci-li∣a-ti-on.

Observe how many Vowels there are in a Word so many Syllables it hath in it, as in Re-con-ci-li-a-ti-on, except the Word end in e or es, as in have and James; or if there be a Dipthong in it, as in may or your: after q is always u with another Vowel, as in quick.