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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

Where a letter or particle serves only to breed confusion it ought to be retrenched, unless that retrenchment render the meaning of the word equivocal.

The Italian and Castilian languages owe much of their construction and constitution to the Latin, yet they do not imitate the Latin orthography as we do, but scholastically admit no more letters in their words than they sound. I am confident, sir, that nothing would conduce so much to the beauty and security of our language, or entitle it to the esteem and confidence of foreigners, as a coalition of writers befriending one uncomplicated system of orthography. Having arranged and accommodated such a one on the principle of analogy, I hope you will allow it room in your next Magazine. That it will be subject to spurious remark and astringent cavil by the cursory inspector is probable, and to meet and cope with controversialists in the area of your work will be preferable than to bring up my defence after my dictionary is published.

SIR,

SINCE I wrote to you last, I have to
acknowledge the beneficial counsel
and co-operation of many learned men ;
and I thank you for allowing the col-
umns of your Magazine to continue re-
cruiting for the service and the security of
my dictionary. In the province of lite-
rature, wrangling and feud were never
more general than at this new era. Every
pen carries a warlike attitude, and the
restoration and future maintenance of
order and good government can be ex-
pected only from enthroned rule and so-
ber authority, holding a banner or decretal,
that may attract a steady belief and an
associated allegiance. A laudable spirit
of inquiry has three centuries actuated
the orthographist, yet, hitherto, little has
been done toward bringing to precision
those principles of spelling which I am so
desirous to enforce upon general obser-
vance. I have never had the satisfaction
of being acquainted with a pen-man who
could boast of precision and complete- A looker-on sometimes discerns the con-
ness in his orthography, nor have I been dition of the game, and discriminates
able to comprehend any principle on quicker than the player himself; and, if
which a writer's practice is erected, nor any of your able writers will examine
any rule to which he has resolutely stu- and frankly give me their opinion of the
died an actual conformity. Every word following nomenclature, I shall esteem it
should be rendered agreeable and inter- a great compliment, whether publicly
esting to the eye, soft and labent to the communicated, or privately to the care of
tongue, and rich in concord and tone. your printer, Mr. Adlard, 23, Bartholo-
Many words of great dignity and sterling mew-close.
worth have been discharged, and consi-
dered unfit for service, on account of
their antiquated stiffness, their Dutch-bel-
lied plenitude, their abraded frame, or
their unauspicious influence on the ear,
which might be judiciously appointed to
the administration of thought and the re-
public of literature, by the ablation of
senseless prefix, a supernumerary conso-
Rant, or the restoration of an exiled vowel.

JOHN PYTCHES.

a

B

Mr. Pytches' Orthographical System.

not Aaronical. 2. 84.

Abb. 18. 57.
Abb-wool.

Aback. 33. 36.
Abaft. 33. 36.
Abbaisseur. 57.
Abalienate. 33.

Aaronnic

Ab (yarn)
Ab-wool

A-back

Ab-aft

The Abaisseur

To Ab-alienate
Abandonary
The Abaptista
Ab-articulation

Abandonery. 94.
Abaptiston.
Abarticulation. 33.

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