CHAPTER IX.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ORTHOGRAPHY.

247. Province of orthography 178 248. Imperfections of alphabets 178 249. Applications of alphabets 180 250. Changes of sound, and original false spelling 181 251. Theory of a perfect alphabet 181 252. Sounds and letters in English 182 253. Certain conventional modes of spelling 187 254. The inconvenience of them 189 255. Criticism upon the details of the English orthography 189-200