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    The Joseph Johnson Miles Memorial.-—

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    188 Fleet Street : July 15, 1885.

    Dutch use Roman < fcc letters names ; thus will Spanish be spelt , Portuguese as by the ,

    respective , nations , . 2 ^^^^— . —^ — Neither —^^—* — - ^^^ r ^ m ^ m ^_* ^^^ v ^^ ^^^ v ^^^ v will w v ______¦ ^__ r any —_ r ^ V ^_ V ^^—> H chang ^^_^ —ip » ^——¦ ——¦—_* ^^^ p ^^^>^^ . ^^> e —^^ r be »^—P 1 —^» r made i ^^—^^— —^~ ^— —— - ^— ' —^— in ^^^^^^ ^^ - ^ the ^—

    not spelling written of such in names Roman in characters languages which as have are become by long usage familiar to English

    Mecca read ^— ers , < fcc *^ t , h __ _ us will L , be C _ . ^_ i al cutta retained ^ " ^^ _ _ , Cutch _*^ in £ _ their ^ , Celebes _ i ^__ present A . ^ B ^ ,

    form . 3 . The true sound of the word as locally

    spelling pronounced 4 M ^ r . will be taken as the basis of the

    sound 4 . An is alone approx aimed imation at . , h A owever system , to which the would attempt to represent the more delicate

    inflections of sound and accent would be so w comp ho desire licated a as more only accurate to defeat pronunciation itself . Those of

    a th stu e wr dy itten of local nam accent e must and learn peculiarities it on the . spot by 5 . The — broad features of the system % iare

    consonants that vowels are in pronounced Elish . as in Italian and ng 6 . One accent only is used—the acute—to

    This denote is very the __ sy important llable ^ M __¦ ___ __¦ on , as which __¦ the _¦ __ h sounds stress of is __ many laid ¦__ __ l ___ . names are entirely altered by the i

    misplaced ment ^^ 4 ^^^(^^ V W ^^^ B ^^^ V r ¦¦ W ^& of ^— ' ^^^ t ¦^ hi ^ l _~ s ^—^ ^^* * ^^™ ^ stress ^^ ^^^^^^* ^^^^ ^ r ^ m W . ' ^—^~^ ^^— ' ~—r ^^^ ^*^ v ~^^^ ^^~^^ * *^ W ~^^ ^__>^^_~^_~ ^__* ^_» ^ P ^ ^— " »^_^ ^ B ^^ r ^—— ' ^^^—~ ^_^ ^ B ^^ 7 . Every letter is pronounce p- d . When two

    t vowe houg w — l h s come th e ^ j resu toget l t , h when er each spoken one is quickl soun — y d , ed is ,

    a somet singl i mes soun scarce d , as ly in to ai , be au , distinguished ei . from

    8 . Indian names are accepted as spelt in Hunter ' s Gazetteer . The amplification of the rules is given

    below : — JL * - * Letters Pronunciation and Remarks Examples

    e e a ah eh eh . , e e a as as as in in in benefit benefit father ' . Tel Tel Java --el el , -- Banana Kebir Kebir . . Ole

    Ole--, lehYezo , Mei English e ; t as in ravine ; the dina Peru , , , Levtika , , sound of ee ^ in AM beet V \

    QVMAAUi ^»* - y ^» . \^ v » . o o as in wzote Thus , not Feejee , but Tokio Fiji , Hindi . . u long oo in u as boot in / tufe ; the sound of

    All \ S % S vowels A * M \ S \ S Thus * ' V * . are , not shortene Zooloo d , but in Zul Yarra u , Sumatra Tanna . sound ing consonant by doubling the follow- Mecca Bonny , , Jidda , ,

    . . Doubling of where a vowel there is only ia a Nuulua , Oosima . distinct necessary repetition of the

    sinai English gle Bound i as . in ice Shanghai . au ow as in how .

    ao is slightly Thus different , not Foochow from above , but Fuchau Macao , . ei is vowels the sound , but of the is two frequently Italian Beirut , Beilul .

    scarcely slurred to over be , distinguished when it is b English from ey b in the English they .

    . c is the always sound soft of , but a that is so it should nearly Celebes , be seldom used .

    If cognised Celebes were it would not already be written re-Celebes . , M AM MB AVH ¦ ^^« ¦ B

    oh d English is always d soft . as in church .. Ohingohin . t English used for /; the ph sound should of not / . be otduz

    xnuan ) jumpnong , jaairong , jNaxa . ,

    188 Fleet Street : July 15, 1885.

    Letters Pronunciation and Remarks Examples

    g is always hard ( soft g is given h is byj always ) .. pronounced .. .. .. when in- GalApagos . / serted I

    . j Bnglishy ,- ' jQ ; should never be k English put for k this ; it should sound . always ... be .. Japan . JinchuPn * " ^ nuen . put for the hard c

    J-LV / JL VAAV JLJ . S- » JL V » * . gh kh is The h another *** Oriental V Thus guttural guttural _ , not »» , Corea as in .. , but the .. Khan Korpa . . ! | Turkish

    Dagh , Ghazi . m n ) I As in English ,

    ng has one two hard separate as in the sounds English , the singer word finger As these , the other two sounds as in

    % jwm % r ^ f * sw * . ____ jk _ r * # _ l _ lx ^ - _ I ^^ V TV \ J K _ T \ JF LA ¦ J \ JLO same are rarely locality employed , no attempt in the is made F " " — i ^ f to «/^^ distinguish \_ MW VAUg IAAOUi between PLr ^ o W W ^^ V / JLJ _ .

    them , q p \ as should is in given English never as , be employed ; qu Kwangtung .

    r s t I As in English . v

    w Sawakin . x y is yard alwavs and a consonant therefore , should as in Kikfiyu .

    never , be used as a terminal * or Thus . ? being , not substituted Mikinddny . , but , Mikind-Lni .

    z English 2 Not Not Kwalv Kwaly , . but but . ^ Swale Zulu Swale . .. Accents should not generally Tongatabu , (

    Jahibe be used used , , but but where where there there is is a a pagos nf __ ros _ , Palawan P & l & wan .,

    very ble or deoided stress emphatic which affects sylla- . Sarawak , the sound of , the wordit should acute accent be . marked by , an

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    " ^ " ¦ - ; " - ' ¦'¦ - ¦[¦^¦ ' - ¦ - ' ¦¦¦¦¦ - > -i B " - ^^^ pp 8 ^ ™ Y ^ 638 The Publishers' Circular Juiyit iM

    The Joseph Johnson Miles Memorial.-—

    The Joseph Johnson Miles Memorial .-

    —this The Committee fund has issued entrusted its long with -looked the - charge for final of

    to report £ 685 . . It 7 s is . 3 stated d . ) has that been the fun appropriated d ( amounting in at

    meeting accordance of with subscribers the resolutions in February passed last , as a

    follows : — Parish 4 1 . That Church a mural of St . tabl Ann et e's be Hi placed ghgate in , at the

    cost not exceeding £ 50 . , < 2 £ A . . That XllCtlJ the lil « 3 OLtlXl sum Ul of 3 £ C 300 * J \ J \ J be WC ? UVUtiAM contributed ^ - to to

    the funds of the St . Pancras Almshouses , provide son son , to to , i be be n perpetu known known ity as aa , tl t he xe pens " " Joseph J io osepn n for Johnson « mmu « w »

    Miles , Inmate" the nomination of such ^ "J ^ J ' su during bject her to t lifetime h , rules , and to be afterwards by Mrs . by Miles the

    committee of the institution , . * 3 That the residue of the fund be paid to

    ( annuall the * JUUU U Stationers . OiMJ J . . y y XllCti , J in . XX maintaining Xl 1 / 1 ' aiLM Company JL , lV OOIUUO ( MtlAXM . XM . , a to WlOAUiiw " Josep vvwvjf ly t h he « deserving "" Johnson fT income *

    Miles Pension whoor , " for if a the widow relief whose of a husbana , has person been , connected , , with the / % , trade —— of a booK- ¦

    JLJLbV seller __ *? Ik-TWA either ___ VVAAAAVVVVV aa master «> TT A V < or K * * assistant **¦_ - wnVw . ' II From the statement of account it appears uoi that

    amounted the sum paid to £ 302 to . 14 the s . lid Stationers . ' » p ~ v ^^— ~ ^ 1

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1885, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071885/page/2/