The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

r of youth. It teaches us the nature and powers

ies of letters, and the wrong method of spelling wor

h of my Deer jem

doun the middle and

skure you for my oa

s at Steak, and a s

ccom For. And i sai

res the Mann for my

Man than that Air Do

iffer, and we was s

er fallin Out. my

t a Wink and Wot is

Happy tight and am

rt to pitty Mee. i

inner and a Jipsy

e But

akin my Mind Up to

will think me too

de Make a Plunge, l

d Mades all their b

nt a Pardoner for Be

k i Behave despicab

s Me take

Letter when Red an

is Caused by my Tee

Happy Va

you N

Is my sunday out An

Street at a q

C. remembe

inal

hy, we may remark, that a lett

ady been given. Dr. Johnson's letter t

bet are the representati

is a Republ

are twenty-six in number. There is nothing like beginning at the beginning; and we shall now therefore enumerate them, with the view also of rendering their insertion subsidiary to mythological instruction, in conformity with the plan on which some account of the Heathen Deities and ancient heroes is pre

ALPH

o, the god o

acchus, astrid

eres, the god

, that would

Echo, that pi

lora, with but

pot-boy, young

ebe, his barm

Io, turn'd

no, that spit

ore lovely than

uldn't have bee

Minerva, with s

ith grey beard a

lympus, King J

Apollo hung

uirites, the R

e Roscius, that

, so famous f

the wise, F. R

Ulysses, so ar

k Vulcan, that l

I mean-wit

Cockney, wot nee

e, the scratch

what Y was, wh

e Stoic, Zeno

ritic, whose fam

ided into Vowel

t were, independent members of the Alphabet, and like independent members elsew

pleasant thing to ha

tomach is very

when it begins

very other place it is a vowel, as crawling, drawl

but, like an old bachelor, if it e

inal

s the greatest share in the production of the sound. Thus a vowel joined to a consona

vowels in one sound, as ea in

n the word beau; a term applied to dandies, and addresse

the sound is formed by both the vow

the sound is formed by one of the vowe

ommon use. By improper dipthongs we mean vowels unwarrantably dilated i

the rustics an

t a foine g

ecious soig

through the corn fiddles (

(saw)

draw) i

our jor

How's your Maw and Paw?

rd young la

at a naice

bee-eaut

ond of d

ies frequen

vely tiawe

eet tempaw

(dirty) the

ey als

re, "lit

ly, "pa

ed, "di

"ske-

"ble

rmed; but besides our dislike to prolixity, we are afraid of getting down in the mouth, and thereby going the wrong way to please

ent of a speech, is a

arms are exceedingly laughable, but we

iarly ridiculous. The "peoplesh" are

histling, and grunting, are e

awming, kweechau, is by some consi

the human mouth, by far the funniest ar

inal