which is that of o fhort. Sabbaoth is ufed in the hymn called Te Deum, and is usually confounded in pronunciation with fabbath, from which it effentially differs in fenfe. God of Sabbaoth means God of Hofts: fabbath fignifies rest.

In aörta and aörift thefe vowels do not coalefce.

§ 4. AU.

The proper found of this diphthong

is the fame as that which we have called the broad found of A; as in all, talk, &c. Of this found AU is the proper representative, except in final fyllables, where aw is substituted for it: ex. aught, author, affault, &c.

It occafionally affumes other founds; as that

Of a long, in gauge.

A short, in the common pronunciation of fausage.

with a diftinct pronunciation of a, o, and of every

fyllable.

-

." seen, but with such eyes,

"As fick, and blunted with community,

"Afford no extraordinary gaze.

Part 1ft of Hen. IV. p. 364.

Of A open, in askaunt, avaunt, aunt, daunt, draught *, draughts (the game), flaunt, gaunt, gauntlet, baunch, haunt, jaundice, jaunt, laugh, launch, laundry, maunder, maundy, paunch, faunter, ftaunch,

vaunt.

o long, in hautboy.

o fhort, in cauliflower, laurel. In proper names, derived from Greek, ending in -laus, thefe vowels are spoken feparately, as Archelaus.

§ 5. AW

Sounds as AU, whofe fubftitute it is in terminations, as in draw, law, bashaw. It remains in the derivatives of fuch words, as in drawer, drawing, lawyer, &c. Sometimes it is followed by a fingle confonant; as d in bawd; I in awl, bawl, crawl, drawl; &c.m in fhawm; n in dawn, brawn, fawn, &c.

It is found in a penult in awkward, bawble.

* In colloquial use; not so in verse.

§ 6. AY.

The found of this diphthong is merely that of the long A. It is the conftant fubftitute for AI in terminations, as aw is for au, and follows the fame rules: thus, play, fay, make playing and faying; but for fayed it is usual to write faid; for layed, laid; for affrayed, affraid; for payed, paid; for ftayed, in the fense of fober or steady, a participial adjective, ftaid. Other verbs in -ay preserve the y.

It is usually pronounced like E long in quay; and flay is often corruptly fo fpoken. An e following this termination coalefces with it into one fyllable: thus, difmayed is fpoken difmaid. Prayer and player rhyme to dare. In mayor the fame effect takes place with o; yet we cannot properly, I think, reckon these latter words monofyllables: the rapidity of pronunciation renders their found obfcure,

§ 7. AYE.

This triphthong occurs only, that I know of, in the monofyllable aye, where it has the found which we give, in our pronunciation of Latin and Greek, to the diphthong ai; a found which feems to be composed of those of the open A and the vowel E.

§ 8. EA.

No diphthong is more frequent in our language than this. Its regular found is that of the long E. Ex. clean, deal, dear, eager, wreath, quean, &c.

The inftances in which it is irregularly pronounced, are the following: it has the found

Of a long, in bear (the beast), and to bear; also break, great, pear, ta tear, steak, fwear, wear.

A fhort, in heart, hearth, hearken. E fhort, in bedstead, beftead, bread, breakfast, breath, breast, cleanly, cleanfe (though from clean, which

which is regular), dead, deaf, dealt, death, dread, dreamt, endeavour, feather, head, health, heaven, heavy, jealous, instead (fometimes pronounced inftid), lead (the metal), leant (for leaned, from to lean), leather, leapt (for leaped), leaven, meadow, meant, meafure, peasant, pheafant, pleasant, pleasure, read (participle of to read, which is regular), ready, realm, feamstress (fpelt also fempstress and semStress), ftead*, steadfast, steady, Stealth, spread, fweat, teat, threat, treachery, tread, thread, treafure, wealth, weapon, weather, zealous, and zealot.

Of u short, in dearth, earl, early, earn, earneft, earth, beard, hearfe,

learn, pearch, rehearse, fearch,

*Both the fubftantive ftead, and the verb to ftead, are now almoft obfolete; for which reafon fome of their derivatives have been admitted into this lift.

Yet rhymed to rear'd, Dryd. Ann. Mir. Stanz. 273.

E 4

yearn.