This however is but a small part of the inconsistency. In two other particulars the absurdity is still more glaring. 1. The modern refiners of our language distinguish two sounds of _u_ long; that of _yu_ and _oo_; and use both without any regard to Latin or Saxon derivation. The distinction they make is founded on a certain principle; and yet I question whether one of a thousand of them ever attended to it. After most of the consonants, they give _u_ the dipthongal sound of _eu_; as in _blue_, _cube_, _due_, _mute_; but after _r_ they almost invariably pronounce it _oo_; as _rule_, _truth_, _rue_, _rude_, _fruit_. Why this distinction? If they contend for the Saxon sound of _u_, why do they not preserve that sound in _true_, _rue_, _truth_, which are of Saxon original; and uniformly give _u_ its Roman sound, which is acknowleged on all hands to have been _oo_, in all words of Latin original, as _rule_, _mute_, _cube_? The fact is, they mistake the principle on which the distinction is made; and which is merely accidental, or arises from the ease of speaking. In order to frame many of the consonants, the organs are placed in such a position, that in passing from it to the aperture necessary to articulate the following vowel or dipthong, we insensibly fall into the sound of _ee_. This in particular is the case with those consonants which are formed near the seat of _e_; viz. _k_ and _g_. The closing of the organs forms these mutes; and a very small opening forms the vowel _e_. In passing from that close compression occasioned by _k_ and _g_, to the aperture necessary to form any vowel, the organs are necessarily placed in a situation to pronounce _ee_. From this single circumstance, have originated the most barbarous dialects or singularities in speaking English, which offend the ear, either in Great Britain or America. This is the origin of the New England _keow_, _keoward_; and of the English _keube_, _ackeuse_, _keind_ and _geuide_. There is just the same propriety in one practice as the other, and both are equally harmonious.