14. T, the last of these misused souldioures, keepes alwayes it's aun
nature, excep it be befoer tio; as, oration, declamation, narration; for
we pronunce not tia and tiu as it is in latin. Onelie let it be heer
observed that if an s preceed tio, the t keepes the awn nature, as in
question, suggestion, _et_c.
15. Thus have I breeflie handled the letteres and their soundes, quhilk,
to end this parte, I wald wish the printeres, in their a, b, c, to
expresse thus:--a, ae, ai, au, ea, b, c, d, e, ee, ei, eu, f, g, h, i,
j, k, l, m, n, o, oa, oo, ou, p, q, r, s, t, u, ui, v, w, x, y, z, and
the masteres teaching their puples to sound the diphthonges, not be the
vouales quharof they be made, but be the sound quhilk they mak in
speaking; lykwayes I wald have them name w, not duble u nor v, singl u,
as now they doe; but the last, vau or ve, and the first, wau or we; and
j, for difference of the voual i, written with a long tail, I wald wish
to to be called jod or je.
OF THE SYLLAB.
Cap. 6.
1. Now followes the syllab, quhilk is a ful sound symbolized with
convenient letteres, and consistes of ane or moe.
2. A syllab of ane letter is symbolized with a voual onelie; as, a in
able, e in ever, i in idle, o in over, u in unitie, for a consonant can
make no syllab alane.
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