Note b — BOOK V.
Reading edition
As the Difference of Tone makes a Difference between every Man’s Voice, of the same Country, yea, Family; so a different Dialect and Pronunciation, differs Persons of divers Countries; yea, Persons of one and the same Country, speaking the same Language: Thus in Greece, there were the Ionick, Dorick, Attick, and Æolick Dialects. So in Great-Britain, besides the grand Diversity of English, and Scotch, the different Counties vary very much in their Pronunciation, Accent and Tone, although all one and the same Language. And the Way of the Gileadites proving the Ephraimites, Judg. xii. 6. by the Pronunciation of Shibboleth, with a Schin, or Sibboleth with a Samech, is well known. So à Lapide saith, the Flemings prove whether a Man be a Frenchman or not, by bidding him pronounce, Act en tachtentich; which they pronounce, Acht en tactentic, by Reason they can’t pronounce the Aspirate h.