5. Voulez-vous bien me dire | Will you tell me why these pourquoi ces lettres sont Parce que les noms de letters are feminine? Because the names of these elle; emme; enne; 6. Donnez-moi des exemples. On dit un P; un D; un O; mais il faut dire une S; une H; une M. letters are terminated by an e mute: erre; esse. Give me some examples. VOYELLES. VOWELS. a-t-il de How many vowels are there? There are six. Name them. at the end of a word of two or more syllables is mute. 10. Formez des syllabes avec les voyelles et les con sonnes. Form syllables by means of the vowels and consonants. 1 Observe that a without a circumflex accent has a very light sound, like the a in the English word bat. 14. Dites ce que vous savez | Say what you know about w. du w. w n'est pas une lettre française; elle vient de mots étrangers. 15. Comment se prononce le w? Il se prononce ou dans les mots qui nous viennent de l'anglais: ainsi whist est ouist; whisky est ouiski; mais dans les mots dérivés de l'allemand il se prononce V: Weimar est Veimar; Kirsch-Wasser se dit Kirsh-Vasser. 16. L'x a différents sons, ? n'est-ce pas Oui, monsieur; c'est aussi expliqué plus loin, au paragraphe 100. w is not a French letter; it comes from foreign words. How is w pronounced? It is pronounced ou in the words which come from the English: thus, whist is ouist; whisky is ouiski; but in the words derived from the German it is pronounced v: Weimar is Veimar; KirschWasser is Kirsh-Vasser. x has different sounds, has it not? Yes, sir; this also is explained later, at paragraph 100. 18. Faites une observation | Make an observation on the sur la lettre h. L'h n'a aucun letter h. son en h has no sound in French; français; ainsi ph se thus, ph is pronounced like an f and th like a t. phi phy pho pho phu thy tho thu 19. pha phe phé 20. Faites une autre obser- | Make another observation on vation sur la manière de ch se prononce comme sh cha the manner of pronouncing ch. ch is pronounced like sh in English. che ché chichy cho chu 21. Comment prononce-t-on | How do you pronounce c? le c? Comme un k devant a o Like a k before a o u, and Dur devant a o u, et doux Hard before a o u, and soft devant e é i y. ga ge 24. Quand le g est-il doux | When is g soft before a o u? 25. * When is g hard before e é iy? REMARK.-geu, in which eu is sounded u, occurs only in ga-geu-re, a bet. 26. Quand le g est-il dur devant e é iy? Quand il est suivi de u; et les voyelles a o u sont aussi quelquefois précédées de u, ce qui ne change rien au son. When it is followed by u; and the vowels a o u are also sometimes preceded by u, which does not alter the sound. gua gue gué gui guy guo REMARKS ON TIES. NOTA.-The question of ties is one that could be made very obscure and tiresome by too many explanations: usage is the best guide. 27. A number of consonants, when at the end of a word, must be sounded as if belonging to the next word, if that next word begins with a vowel; they are: 1. C.-Il est donc i-nu-ti-le que vous par-tiez ̄a-vec~ It is therefore Ar-thur. Arthur. 11. D (like t).--C'est mon grand a-mi. should go away with Un grand great friend. hom-me.2 man. Words ending in rd carry the r not the d. Le ca-nard est bon. Le brouil-lard est é-pais. Le 2 In sud-ouest and sud-est, however, the dis carried like d, not t. The |