The phonetic letters in the first column are pronounced like the italic letters in the words that follow. The last column contains the _names_ of the letters. CONSONANTS. _Mutes._ P p ro_p_e p[i] B b ro_b_e b[i] T t fa_t_e t[i] D d fa_d_e d[i] [Ch] [ch] e_tch_ [ch][e] J j e_dg_e j[e] K k lee_k_ k[e] G g le_ag_ue g[e] _Continuants._ F f sa_f_e ef V v sa_v_e v[i] [T] [t] wrea_th_ i[t] [Dh] [dh] wrea_th_e [dh][i] S s hi_ss_ es Z z hi_s_ z[i] [Sh] [sh] vi_ci_ous i[sh] [Z] [Z] vi_si_on [z][i] _Nasals._ M m see_m_ em N n see_n_ en [N] [n] si_ng_ i[n] _Liquids._ L l fa_ll_ el R r _r_a_r_e ar _Coalescents._ W w _w_et w[e] Y y _y_et y[e] _Aspirate._ H h _h_ay [e][ch] VOWELS. _Guttural._ A a _a_m at [A] [a] _al_ms [a] E e _e_ll et [E] [e] _a_le [e] I i _i_ll it [I] [i] _ee_l [i] _Labial._ O o _o_n ot [W] [w] _a_ll [w] [U] [u] _u_p [u]t [O] [o] _o_pe [o] U u f_u_ll ut [Ue] [ue] f_oo_d [ue] DIPHTHONGS: Ei ei, IU iu, OU ou, AI ai, OI oi, as heard in b_y_, ne_w_, no_w_, K_ai_ser, b_oy_. [In the next fourteen pages, five of the new letters will be employed, viz., [a], [u], [t], [z], [n], for the sounds represented by the italic letters in f_a_ther, _s_on, b_u_t, _th_in, vi_si_on, si_ng_.] Nou ei ask eni intelijent reader who d[u]z not [t]i[n]k that everi[t]i[n] niu and stranje iz, _ipso facto_, ridikiul[u]s and abs[u]rd, hwether after a fiu dayz’ praktis, he or she wud not read and reit I[n]glish, akordi[n] tu Mr. Pitman’z sistem, with perfekt eaze? Ov kourse it takes more than feiv minits tu master it, and more than feiv minits tu form an opinion ov its merits. B[u]t admiti[n] even that peopel ov a serten aje shud feind this niu alfabet tr[u]bels[u]m, we m[u]st not forget that no reform kan be karid out without a jenerashon or two ov marterz; and hwot true reformerz hav tu [t]i[n]k ov iz not themselvz, b[u]t thoze who k[u]m after them—thoze, in fakt, who ar nou growi[n] [u]p tu inherit hereafter, hwether they leik it or not, all the gud and all the evil hwich we chooz tu leav tu them.