2. The metrical version of Tate and Brady, and that of Archdeacon Prys. 3. Dr. Watts's metrical version and a Welsh imitation of it. _Letters in three Welsh Versions._ _Bible._ _Prys._ _Watts._ Consonants 185 205 241 Vowels 148 165 159 --- --- --- Apparent excess of } consonants in Welsh } 37 40 82 _Letters in three English Versions._ _Bible._ _Tate & Brady._ _Watts._ Consonants 220 271 275 Vowels 134 163 170 --- --- --- Apparent excess of } consonants in English } 86 108 105 _Sounds in three Welsh Versions._ _Bible._ _Prys._ _Watts._ Consonants 150 173 200 Vowels 148 165 159 --- --- --- Real excess of consonants} in Welsh } 2 8 41 _Sounds in three English Versions._ _Bible._ _Tate & Brady._ _Watts._ Consonants 195 241 240 Vowels 122 149 159 --- --- --- Real excess of consonants} in English } 73 92 81 From this analysis it appears that the excess of consonant _letters_ over vowels is, in English, 299; and in Welsh, 159, a little more than one-half. The excess of consonant _sounds_ is, in English, 246; in Welsh, 51, considerably less than one-fourth. This result might readily have been anticipated by anybody familiar with the following facts: 1. On examining lists of the elementary sounds of both languages, it will be found that the Welsh has a greater number of vowels than the English, and the English a greater number of consonants than the Welsh. 2. Welsh diphthongs are much more numerous than English. 3. In English, _three_ vowels only constitute words in themselves (_a_, article; _I_, pronoun; _O_, interjection), and each is used only in one sense. In Welsh, _five_ of the vowels (_a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, _y_) are words; and they are used in at least a dozen different significations. _A_, besides being an affirmative and interrogative adverb, answers to the English _and_, _as_, _with_, _will go_. 4. Diphthongs forming distinct words are much more numerous in Welsh than in English. The following occur: _ai_, _a'i_ (=_a ei_), _a'u_, _ei_, _eu_, _ia_, _ïe_, _i'w_, _o'i_, _o'u_, _ow_, _[^w]y_, _yw_.