i in the middle of a word denotes an aspirate (h), as K'ung=Khung.

Sound N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness &c adj.; audibility; resonance &c 408; voice &c 580; aspirate; ideophone^; rough breathing.

V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c (shout) 411; ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate^, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

The average Englishman cannot aspirate a K, and never pronounces the Indian A aright unless it is followed by an R, so khat becomes "cot" by a process of which there are many illustrations.

A rough mute is not doubled, nor can successive syllables begin with an aspirate.

Another lesson gave them the soft guttural g, but did not sound it jee; and the aspirate, but did not call it aitch.

Thus, the most serious characters make their most solemn and most pathetic speeches in provincial dialect and ungrammatical constructions, although it must be allowed that the authoress has not ventured so far in this way as to play with the use and abuse of the aspirate.

Not more surely did the lacking aspirate betray the Ephraimite at Jordan than the spelling of this manuscript corrector reveals the period at which he performed his labors.

There are, however, about forty words ending in ate, which, without difference of form, are either verbs or adjectives; as, aggregate, animate, appropriate, articulate, aspirate, associate, complicate, confederate, consummate, deliberate, desolate, effeminate, elate, incarnate, intimate, legitimate, moderate, ordinate, precipitate, prostrate, regenerate, reprobate, separate, sophisticate, subordinate.

"The inserting the common aspirate too, is improper."Ib., p. 134.

"The difference between a palatial and a guttural aspirate is very small.

"The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper.

"For there is no authority which can justify the inserting of the aspirate or the doubling of the vowel.

OF THE LETTER H. The sound of the consonant H, (though articulate and audible when properly uttered,) is little more than an aspirate breathing.

The other species of syllables called common, are such as terminate in a half-vowel or aspirate.

The second and fourth letter, heh, is an aspirate, and has here the sound of the English h.

I should be glad to be informed if my opinion is correct; and I will only further observe, that the same remarks are applicable towards words beginning with "h." An horse sounds as bad as a hour; and it is obvious that in these cases employment of "A" or "An" is dictated by the consideration whether the aspirate is sounded or is quiescent, and has no reference to the spelling of the word.

In the first place, in all their words the aspirate produces the effect of a consonant, and is more prolonged than the consonant f, amongst us.

I insist upon this point because it often happens among the Latins that an aspirate changes the significance of a word; thus hora means a division of the day, ora which is the plural of os, the mouth, and ora meaning region, as in the phrase Trojae qui primus ab oris.

It is consequently necessary to heed the accents and not neglect the aspirate in speaking the language of these simple people.

I see," said the chairman, "it is a case of misplaced aspirate!

And above all, the accentthe soft (not to say slobbering) c and g, and the guttural aspirate which turns casa into hasa and capitale into hapitale, and so forththis is cherished with peculiar fondness.

I do not think he ever introduced the aspirate where it was not needed, but he habitually spoke of 'and, 'ead, and 'ouse.

Before an unaccented aspirate use an.

The correct form would be que oui, as the initial vowel of oui is now treated as an aspirate.