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GENEr.AL RULES FOR SPELLING WORDS.
RULl! I.
53. Monosyllables ending with f, 1, or s, preceded by a single vowel,
double the final consonant; as, staff. mill, pass.
54. Exceptions.-Of, if, af', is, has, was, ui" gas, yes, thie, us, thus, pUB.
RULE II.
55. WOlds ending with any consonant except f, I, or 8, do not double
the finalleUcr; as, sit, not, lip, put, that, in.
56. Exceplions.-Adu, LUlln, butt, buzz, ebb, egg, er,', inn, odd, purr.
RCLE III.
57. Words ending in y preceded by a consonant, change y into i before
an ndditioual letter or Ryllablc; ns, spy, spies; happy, happier, happiest;
curry, carrier, ca1Tied; .f..tncy, fanciful.
58. E.rception l.-But y is not chnnged before ing; as, deny, denying.
59.-2. Words eoding in y preceded by a vowel, retain the y unchang­
"tl; as, boy, boys, boyish, boyhood.
Exception S.-But lay, pay, say, make laid, paid, said; aud day makeB
daily.
BULE IV.
60. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, endiJJg with
a single consonant preceded by n ~ingle vowel, double that consonant
before an additional syllable beginning with a vowel; !lS, rob, robber;"
admit, admittance, admitted.
Exception.-But x and h are never doubled.
61. But when n diphthong or a double vowel precedes, or the accent is
not on the last sylIaLle, the consonant is not doubled; ns, boil, boiling,
boiler; wool, woolen; fool,foolish; visit, visited.
62. Exception. •.-In about fifty words ending in I with a vowel before
it, and not accented on the last syllable, many writers, contrary to analogy
and without necessity, double the 1 improperly before an additional
syllable. These are such words as travel, trat'elier, travelling, trat'elied."
63. So also sand p are generally, though improperly, doubled in bias,
worship, and kidnap; ae, biassing, worshipper, kidnapping. Webster, and
mnny writers following him, in these words conform to the general rule •
• The words referred to are the followiug: Apparel, bevel, bowel, cancel. carol.
cavil. cbaunel, chisel. counsel, cudgel. disbevel, drivcl, duel, em bowel. enamel. empanel,
equal, gamllol, gravel, !:r .. , d, bandsel, hatchel. imperil, Jewel. kennel, label,
level. libel, marshal, marvel, luud"i, panel, parcel, pencil, peril, pIstol, pommel, quarrel,
ravel, revel, rival. rowel. shovel, shrivel, sui vel, tassel. trammol, travel, tunnel,
unravel.