NG in the words long and in king is a simple sound like the French n, and wants a new character. SH is a simple sound, and wants a new character. TH is either sibilant as in thigh; or semivocal as in thee; both of which are simple sounds, and want two new characters. J French exists in our words confu_si_on, and conclusion, judge, pigeon, and wants a character. J consonant, in our language, expresses the letters d, and the French j conjoined, as in John, Djon. CH is either k as in Arch-angel, or is used for a sound compounded of Tsh, as in Children, Tshildren. GL is dl, as Glove is pronounced by polite people dlove. CL is tl, as Cloe is pronounced by polite speakers Tloe. The spelling of our language in respect to the pronunciation is also wonderfully defective, though perhaps less so than that of the French; as the words slaughter and laughter are pronounced totally different, though spelt alike. The word sough, now pronounced suff, was formerly called sow; whence the iron fused and received into a sough acquired the name of sowmetal; and that received into less soughs from the former one obtained the name of pigs of iron or of lead; from the pun on the word sough, into sow and pigs. Our word jealousies contains all the vowels, though three of them only were necessary; nevertheless in the two words abstemiously and facetiously the vowels exist all of them in their usual order, and are pronounced in their most usual manner. Some of the vowels of our language are diphthongs, and consist of two vocal sounds, or vowels, pronounced in quick succession; these diphthongs are discovered by prolonging the sound, and observing, if the ending of it be different from the beginning; thus the vowel i in in our language, as in the word high, if drawn put ends in the sound of the letter e as used in English; which is expressed by the letter i in most other languages: and the sound of this vowel i begins with ah, and consists therefore of ah and ee. Whilst the diphthong on in our language, as in the word how, begins with ah also and ends in oo, and the vowel u of our language, as in the word use, is likewise a diphthong; which begins with e and ends with oo, as eoo. The French u is also a diphthong compounded of a and oo, as aoo. And many other defects and redundancies in our alphabet will be seen by perusing the subsequent structure of a more perfect one. II. _Production of Sounds._