Excerpt from A New Spelling Book on the Comparative Method: With Side-Lights From History Our language is said to possess thirteen different vowel-sounds 3 but there are 104 ways of representing these vowel-sounds to the eye. There are fourteen ways of presenting to the eye (or of printing) a long 6 as in boat, fold, dough, toe, etc. There are twelve ways of printing a short i; as in sit, busy, Cyril, women, etc. There are twelve ways of printing a short 6; as in wet, lead, any, bury, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.