Example; Some may still imagine _the_ signification of _an_ article or _a_ letter, and perhaps more compound names to be indefinable, and the article to be useless; tho’ _the_ definitions here given thereof evidently shew _the_ contrary; and the Greeks and Romans not only made use of the genders ο, η, το, and hic, hæc, hoc, but also of a declining article at the end of nouns, as the Welsh did _un_ and _yr_, which last before a consonant sunk into y _the_, inflecting with the following radical consonant; and other nations have made use of the article. _To_ dispute the utility of the article seems therefore absurd, but it may be _a_ dispute, whether either determine _any_ particular individual, or only some third person alluded to, pointed at, meant or spoken of in discourse, or in the line of possession; ο, η, το, hic, hæc, hoc, this, that, yr, un, le, ein and der expressing as much. Of Nouns Substantive. A Noun Substantive denotes a substance, as a spirit, an animal, a vegetable, or any other thing that may be conceived to subsist, as _agreeableness_, _agility_, _acceleration_; which, tho’ their qualities, _agreeable_, _agile_, _accelerate_, are indefinite or indeterminate, yet by the signs, _ness_, _ty_, _ion_, signifying substances, properties, and the sun’s motion, acquire such a determinate meaning as to become substantives, and to shew their meaning without being joined with any other word. And all names, whether of substances, qualities, or other things, to which the articles _an_ or _the_, or any other substantive signs are joined or set in apposition, are nouns substantive. There are in the English language more substantive names than seem to be necessary for an universal language, besides the synonymas of various other dialects, which are incongruous in sense, with the hieroglyfic signs, and tend to darken and confound the natural sense and sounds of names and things. Tho’ the English vocables are explained elsewhere, we shall here take notice of some peculiarities of that nature in the English substantives. Bl-ab, b-abe; ebb, gl-ebe; rib, tr-ibe; kn-ob, gl-obe; t-ub, t-ube; where the final _e_ should be dropped, and the remaining vowel marked with a grave accent, as tub, tùb. B-ack, b-ake; b-eck, b-eke; l-ick, like, link; p-ock, p-oke, m-uck, p-uke. These might be wrote as lic, lìc. Ax, sex, ra-dix, ox, ux, as acs or ach as formerly. Ach, be-ach, spe-ech, st-ich, l-och, n-och, touch. M-atch, l-etch, itch, b-otch, sm-utch. H-ac, ar-se, ace, dice, d-oce, d-uce. H-ag, l-eg, g-ig, l-og, h-ug. Age, b-adge, coll-ege, edge, se-ige, br-idge, d-oge, l-odge, subterf-uge, b-udge.