[Gutenberg 64554] • The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

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It is to'be Observed also, that g, when it has the soft sound, is a double consonant, and performs the same Office as the letter J each having a sound compounded Of the sounds of d and the French J Thus, g in general has the same sound as J in join. J, however, is not, as some have supposed, resolvable into two letters, for we have no character to express the simple sound Of the French j, of which, with the consonant d, the sound of the English J is compounded. To resolve it into dg, as some have done, is therefore an error; as the soft g, without the aid Of the other consonant, is precisely identical, in respect to sound, with the consonant J. The letter 11 is no consonant; it is merely the note of aspiration.

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