127. Sharp and flat mutes 88 128. Unstable combinations 89 129. Effect of y 89 130, 131. Double consonants rare 89 132. True aspirates rare 90 CHAPTER IV. EUPHONY AND THE PERMUTATION OF LETTERS. 133. Euphony 92 134. Permutation 93 CHAPTER V. ON THE FORMATION OF SYLLABLES. 135. Syllabification 95-97 CHAPTER VI. ON QUANTITY. 136. Long and short sounds 98 137. Quantity of vowels--of syllables 98 138. Classical and English measurements 99 CHAPTER VII. ON ACCENT. 139. Place of accents 101 140. Distinctive accents 101 141. Emphasis 102 CHAPTER VIII. ORTHOGRAPHY. 142. Orthoepy 103 143-146. Principle of an alphabet 103-105 147. Violations of it 105 148. Rules 107 149-151. Details of English 107-109 152. Insufficiency 109 153. Inconsistency 109 154. Erroneousness 110 155. Redundancy 110 156. Unsteadiness 110 157. Other defects 111 158. Historical propriety 113 159. Conventional spelling 113 CHAPTER IX. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET. 160-166. Phœnician, Greek, Roman stages 116-124 166-172. Anglo-Saxon alphabet 124-126 173. Anglo-Norman alphabet 126 174. Extract from _Ormulum_ 127 175. Order of alphabet 128 PART IV. ETYMOLOGY. CHAPTER I. ON THE PROVINCE OF ETYMOLOGY. 176-179. Meaning of term 131-133 CHAPTER II. ON GENDER. 180. _Boy_ and _girl_ 134 181. _Man-servant_ and _maid-servant_ 134 182, 183. Forms like _genitrix_ 135 184. Forms like _domina_ 136 185-189. Genders in English 136, 137 190-192. _The sun in _his_ glory; the moon in _her_ wane_ 138 193. Miscellaneous forms 139-142 CHAPTER III. THE NUMBERS.