They are never used but befoer the voual; as we, ye, wil, you;
behynd the voual thei mak noe consonant sound, nor sould be written, and
therfore now and vow, with sik otheres, are not [to] be written w_i_th
w, as is said befoer.
6. Of this q_uhi_lk now is said may be gathered that general, q_uhi_lk I
called the keie of orthographie, cap. 1 sect. 5, that is the congruence
of the symbol and sound symbolized; that is, that bathe must belang to
the same organes and be tuiched after the same form.
7. And, be the contrarie, here it is clere that soundes pronu_n_ced with
this organ can not be written with symboles of that; as, for exemple, a
labiel symbol can not serve a dental nor a guttural sound; nor a
guttural symbol a dental nor a labiel sound.
8. To clere this point, and alsoe to reform an errour bred in the south,
and now usurped be our ignorant printeres, I wil tel quhat befel my self
quhen I was in the south with a special gud frende of myne. Ther rease,
upon sum accident, quhither quho, quhen, quhat, _et_c., sould be
symbolized with q or w, a hoat disputation betuene him and me. After
manie conflictes (for we ofte encountered), we met be chance, in the
citie of Baeth, w_i_th a Doctour of divinitie of both our acquentance.
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