And as there is no sort of foundation or necessity for the participle perfect, the best way of correcting those verbs which are supposed to be irregular therein, would be to drop it as superfluous, and fully as well expressed by the past tense, as help, helped, without holpen, cleave, cleaved, or cleft, instead of cleave, clave, clove and cloven, hang hanged, for hang hung. And as to the forming a regular past tense, by reducing irregular verbs to their primitive state in the present tense, the following may perhaps be no improper observation, viz. _all_ in fall, before the corrupt sound of the northern a, as that of o, was, as it ought to be, accented, like _ale_ in pale, and marked with a long accent, as signifying _from high_; its past tense accented short, as _all_ in shall; and wrote _fall_ and not fell; the e not having then taken the place of a, nor a, that of o; shake, signifying _a passionate action of a subject_, is properly accented and wrote in the present tense, but its past tense having partaken of the northern accent, it then came to be wrote and accented _shook_, instead of _shaked_, which, notwithstanding its long establishment by vulgar custom ought to be rectified accordingly; and so as to swear, heave, freeze, abide, strike, dig, and various other instances, where the e has assumed the place of a, a of o, o of a, e, i, or u, of i, or any other change of vowels from the present, to form the past tense; except such as _do_ and _did_, which are different words, and of themselves incapable of any inflection. And the English terminations _an_ and _en_, borrowed from the northern dialects, add nothing to the meaning of our names, but the English, or Engli-Saxon names, are of a southern or Celtic origin, and as fully expressive of the meaning to which they are applied without them; except where they are added to form the singular number, or to active names as substantiving articles, as in all other Celtic dialects. ADVERBS.