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Page 55 - Romanic type , of spelling differs most notably from the native or 1 normal is in the failure of the rule that a short vowel is followed by a double consonant and a long vowel by a single, in such forms as hatter, hater; bitten, biter; bonny, bony; stunning, tuning.
Page 1 - Several classes of words retain more or less exactly a type of spelling...
Page 12 - In ebb, add, odd, egg, inn, err, the double consonant is retained (in contrast to iveb, sad, rod, etc. ) to preserve the word from the insignificant appearance it would have if written eb, ad, od, etc.
Page 17 - The first five correspond to the names of the letters a, e, i, o, u; of these i and u are actually diphthongs, as are also a and o in standard English pronunciation.