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PREFACE.
ment would be no longer difgufted with the trouble he is obliged to take
to reconcile the different modes of orthography, that he might fully
comprehend the name of the place defcribed by the author. But that
we may not fall into the fame error oui'felves which we complain of in
others, and that the reader may be the better able to give the Malay
tongue its exad; pronunciation, we mull requeft he will pay particular
attention to the following rules
1 In general we have endeavoured to exprefs the Malay words agreea-
bly to the Englifli orthography, by giving the vowels and confonants the
fame founds which we obferve in reading and writing the Englifh tongue,
without the leaft regard to any other language.
2. Where (a) has no accentual mark it is to be founded as in
man, can.
3 But where (a) is to be founded broader, as in raba, bapa, awa, it is
then marked with an accute accent, and is to be founded like (a) in
Ihall, fall.
4. The (e) is to be founded as in Englifh words, and where marked,
the accent is to be laid on that fyllable, as in {6\6moot, the fyllables (fc, U)
are to be founded long as (re) in regard, require.
5. The (e) final, or at the end of any word, is not to be founded, but
ferves as in Englifli words to draw out the fyllable longer, as in pohonc,
mohono, which words confift of two and not three fyllables, as po-hone,
mo-hone, and the laft fyllable, hone, is founded as we pronounce the mock
Irifli lamentation O hone O hone.
6. AVhen any words end with double (c) or (ee) as in jarree, nantee,
which coniifting of two fyUables, as jar-ree, nan-tee, the accent lies on
the laft (e) and the laft fyllables, ree, tec, muft be founded as in Englifti
me, fee.
7. When the (i) is accented as in titah, ti'ang, it is then to be founded
as (y) and the fyllable refts on that letter, as in title ; in all other cafes,
like the Englilh Ihort (i) in thing.