Sa femme étoit là préfente, Lui dit, en femme prudente,MVSEVM Mon Mari, fais-tu Of fix fyllables. à foi-même odieux En tous lieux il s'évite, Et fe trouve en tous lieux. BRITAN A final confonant is not pronounced when the next word begins with a confonant. Example: Vous dont le tendre caractère Sait unir par d'aimables noeuds, From this Rule must be excepted the final 1, of all words; the final r, of monofyllables; that of all words after a diphthong, and of a few fubftantives ending in ir, fuch as defir, soupir, éléxir. The final confonant is pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel. The feminine fyllable is formed with one or two confonants before e mute. When it is with a fingle confonant, it is pronounced very fhort before a confonant, but fomewhat longer when it is formed with two confonants and e mute; it is always quite mute before a vowel, and the confonant preceding the e mute is pronounced upon that vowel, as if it was the initial letter of the fyllable, even in the cæfura, as, Ayez pour la cadence une oreille févère. A diphthong is the union of feveral vowels in the fame fyllable: fome are pronounced in one found, as, mais, portois; others in two founds, as, moi, bruit vouloir. Thofe in one found are generally fhort; thofe in two founds long, and fometimes in verfe, they make two fyllables, as in the firft verfe of fix fyllables, in the example quoted above; though they make but one in profe. When the last fyllable of the fingular of fubftantives and adjectives ends with a confonant, and is fhort, the addition of s, to make the plural, makes it long; as, projet, projets; plat, plats; chanfon, chanfons; bon, bons; petit, petits.. Here ends this Grammar: if it meets with approbation, I shall efteem myself happy, and fully rewarded. |
