5. In Welsh there are no such clusters of consonants as occur in the English words _arched_ {472} (pronounced _artsht_), _parched_, _scorched_, _marched_, _hinged_ (_hindzhd_), _singed_, _cringed_, _fringed_, _purged_ (_purdzhd_), _charged_ (_tshardzhd_), _scratched_, &c. &c. From the difficulty encountered in pronouncing some of these combinations, arise the vulgar errors heard in some parts of the country: _burstis_ for _bursts_, _castis_ for _casts_. Three consonants are very rarely thus crushed together in Welsh,--four, never. 6. The Welsh, to avoid an unpleasant hiatus, often introduce a consonant. Hence we have _y_ or _yr_, the; _a_ or _ac_, and; _a_ or _ag_, as; _na_ or _nac_, not; _na_ or _nag_, than; _sy_ or _sydd_, is; _o_, from, becomes _odd_; _i_, to, becomes _idd_. I cannot call to mind more than one similar example in English, _a_ or _an_; and its existence is attributable to the superfluity of consonants, _n_ being _dropped_ in _a_, not _added_ in _an_. The mystery of the consonants in the swearing Welshman's mouth (humorously described by Messrs. Chambers) is difficult of explanation. The words usual in Welsh oaths afford no clue to its solution; for the name of the Deity has two consonants and one vowel in English, while it has two vowels and one consonant in Welsh. Another name invoked on these occasions has three consonants and two vowels in English, and one of the vowels is usually elided; in Welsh it has three vowels and three consonants, and colloquially the middle consonant is dropped. The Welsh borrow a few imprecatory words from the English, and in appropriating them they _append the vowel termination_ o _or_ io. Prejudice or imagination, therefore, seems to have had something to do in describing poor Taffy's profanities. In conclusion, I may add that the Hundredth Psalm was chosen for analysis without a previous knowledge that it would present a greater excess of consonants (letters or sounds) in English than in Welsh. I do not believe two chapters from the Bible can be produced, which will show an opposite result. GWILYM GLAN TYWI. There is no _k_ in the Welsh alphabet, a circumstance which reduces the consonants to twenty; while a farther reduction is made by the fact that _w_ and _y_ are _always_ vowels in Welsh, instead of being only occasionally so, as in English. J. M. will therefore find that the Welsh alphabet contains but eighteen consonants and seven vowels, twenty-five letters in all.