8. The use of the accent wil be of good importance for the right
pronu_n_ciation of our tongue, quhilk now we doe forte, non arte, and
conforming of the dialectes, q_uhi_lk, as I have said, differes most in
this.
OF THE APOSTROPHUS AND HYPHEN.
Cap. 10.
1. The learned printeres uses to symboliz apostrophus and hyphen as wel
as a, b, c.
2. Apostrophus is the ejecting of a letter or a syllab out of one word
or out betuene tuae, and is alwayes marked above the lyne, as it wer a
com_m_a, thus '.
3. Out of one word the apostrophus is most usual in poesie; as Ps. 73,
v. 3, for quhen I sau such foolish men, I grug'd, and did disdain; and
v. 19, They are destroy'd, dispatch'd, consum'd.
4. Betuene tuae wordes we abate either from the end of the former or the
beginni_n_g of the later.
5. We abate from the end of the former quhen it endes in a voual and the
next beginnes at a voual; as, th' ingrate; th' one parte; I s' it, for I
see it.
6. In abating from the word following, we, in the north, use a
mervelouse libertie; as, he's a wyse man, for he is a wyse man; I'l meet
with him, for I wil meet with him; a ship 'l of fooles, for a ship ful
of fooles; and this we use in our com_m_on language.
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