Notwithstanding the authority of Sheridan, I presume few people will contend for the privilege of accenting _acceptable_ on the first syllable. How the organs of any man can be brought to articulate so many consonants in the weak syllables, or how the ear can relish such an unnatural pronunciation, is almost inconceiveable. In spite of the pedantry of scholars, the ease and melody of speaking, have almost wholly banished the absurd practice, by restoring the accent to the second syllable. But with respect to _admirable_, _comparable_ and _disputable_, the authors who are deemed authorities are divided; some are in favor of the accent on the first syllable, and others adhere to analogy. Setting aside custom, every reason for accenting these words on the first syllable, will apply with equal force to _adviseable_, _inclineable_, _requireable_, and a hundred others. They are all formed from verbs accented on the last syllable, by annexing the _same_ termination to the verb, and they are all of the _same_ part of speech. Let us examin them by the rules for accentuation, laid down in the preceding dissertation. The primitive verbs of this class of words are usually compounded of a particle and principal part of speech; as _ad-mi-ro_, _com-paro_, _re-quæro_, &c. The last syllable, derived from a verb, is the most important, and in the primitives, is invariably accented. This is agreeable to the first rule. In nine tenths of the derivatives, the same syllable retains the accent; as, _perceiveable_, _available_, _deploreable_. In these therefore both rules are observed. The third rule, or that which arises from the terminating syllable, is also preserved in most of this class of words. It is therefore much to be regretted, that a false rule should have introduced an irregularity into the language, by excepting a few words from an analogy, which unites in itself every principle of propriety. But the practice, with respect to the three words under consideration, is by no means general. I have taken particular notice of the pronunciation of people in every part of America, and can testify that, in point of numbers, the practice is in favor of analogy. The people at large say _admi'reable_, _dispu'teable_, _compa'reable_; and it would be difficult to lead them from this easy and natural pronunciation, to embrace that forced one of _ad'mirable_, &c. The people are right, and, in this particular, will ever have it to boast of, that among the unlearned is found the purity of English pronunciation.