Note 89 — LETTRE A MONSIEUR A. FIRMIN DIDOT, SUR QUELQUES POINTS DE PHILOLOGIE FRANÇAISE.
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And if the thre consonantes come together, they ever leve two of the first unsounded, putting here, as I have said, no difference whether the consonantes thus come together in one worde alone, or the wordes do folowe one another; for many tymes theyr wordes ende in two consonantes, bycause they take awaye the last vowell of the latine tong, as corps, temps.