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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


52. _What is its place in the Greek alphabet?_
Sixth.
53. _What is its place in the Hebrew?_
Seventh.
54. _What letter is the sonorous counterpart of S?_
The letter Z.--_Cyclopedia._
55. _What is spelling of Z in England?_
Zed, and also Izzard.
56. _What language has two letters representing the sound of Z?_
The Russian.
57. _When was the letter W first used?_
About the end of the Seventh Century.
58. _What changes the sound of a vowel from long to short?_
The absence of the accent.
59. _In what situation is gh always silent?_
After i in the same syllable.
60. _How many words of two syllables are changed from nouns to
verbs by accent?_
About eighty.
61. _What word contains a consonant Tetragraph?_
Phthisic.
62. _What is Philology?_
The science of language.
63. _When is ue final, silent?_
After g and q; as fatigue and oblique.
64. _What are the elements of spoken language?_
Vocal and articulate sounds.
65. _What are Hybrid words?_
Mongrel compounds.
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