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use que_, a conjunction."--DR. WEBSTER: _Knickerbocker_, 1836. "To these are given to speak in the name of the Lord."--_The Friend_, vii, 256. "While _wheat_ has no plural, _oats_ have seldom any singular."--_Cobbett's E. Gram._ 41. "He cannot assert that _ll_ are inserted in _fullness_ to denote the sound of _u_."--_Cobb's Review of Webster_, p. 11. "_ch_ have the power of _k_."--_Gould's Adam's Gram._, p. 2. "_ti_, before a vowel, and unaccented, have the sound of _si_ or _ci_."--_Ibid._ "In words derived from the French, as _chagrin, chicanery_, and _chaise, ch_ are sounded like _sh_."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 10. "But in the word _schism, schismatic_, &c., the _ch_ are silent."--_Ibid._ "_Ph_ are always sounded like _f_, at the beginning of words."--_Bucke's Gram._ "_Ph_ have the sound of _f_ as in _philosophy_."--_Webster's El. Spelling-Book_, p. 11. "_Sh_ have one sound only as in _shall_."--_Ib._ "_Th_ have two sounds."--_Ib._ "_Sc_ have the sound of _sk_, before _a, o, u_, and _r_."--_Ib._ "Aw, have the sound of _a_ in hall."--_Bolles's Spelling-Book_, p. vi. "Ew, sound like _u_."--_Ib._ "Ow, when both sounded, have the sound of _ou_."--_Ib._ "Ui, when both pronounced in one syllable sound like _wi_ in _languid_."--_Ib._ "_Ui_ three several Sorts of Sound express, As _Guile, rebuild, Bruise_ and _Recruit_ confess." --_Brightland's Gram._, p. 34. UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER. "When each of the letters which compose this word, have been learned."--_Dr. Weeks, on Orthog._, p. 22. "As neither of us deny that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 21. "Yet neither of them are remarkable for precision."--_Ib._, p. 95. "How far each of the three great epic poets have distinguished themselves."--_Ib._, p. 427. "Each of these produce a separate agreeable sensation."--_Ib._, p. 48. "On the Lord's day every one of us Christians keep the sabbath."--_Tr. of Irenaeus_. "And each of them bear the image of purity and holiness."--_Hope of Israel_, p. 81. "Were either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--_Foster's Report_, i, 96. "Whilst neither of these letters exist in the Eugubian inscription."--_Knight, on Greek Alph._, p. 122. "And neither of them are properly termed indefinite."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 88. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their verb."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 120. "Sometimes when the word ends in
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