How many ways do you spell the Syllable

Ac. Rule 1.

Ac is spell'd 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With ac, as Acca.
• 2. With a, c, h, as Achmon.
• 3. With a, c, k, as Sack.
• 4. With a, k, as Habakkuk.

Ec. Rule 2.

Ec is Spell'd 4 ways; Viz.

• 1. With ec, as Ecclesiastick.
• 2. With e, c, h, as Abimelech.
• 3. With e, c, k, as Purbeck.
• 4. With e, k, as Ephek.

Ca. Rule 3.

Ca is spell'd 6 ways, Viz.

• 1. With C, a, as Cathedral.
• 2. With C, a, i, as Cain.
• 3. With c, a, y, as Decay.
• 4. With C, h, a, as Character.
• 5. With K, a, as Kadmiel.
• 6. With k, a, h, as Azekah.

Ke. Rule 4.

Ke is spell'd 3 ways, Viz.

• 1. With C, h, e, as Chedorlaomer.
• 2. With K, e, as Kerchief.
• 3. With K, ee, as Keeping.

Ki. Rule 5.

Ki is spell'd 3 ways, Viz.

• 1. With C, h, i, as Chirurgeon.
• 2. With c, h, y, as Alchymy.
• 3. With K, i, as Kindle.

Co. Rule 6.

Co is spell'd 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With C, o, as Coherence.
• 2. With Co, a, as Coal.
• 3. With C, oo, as Cook.
• 4. With K, o, as Korah.

Fa. Rule 7.

Fa is spell'd 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With F, as Facility.
• 2. With f, a, i, as Fail.
• 3. With f, e, i, as unfeigned
• 4. With P, h, a, as Phares.

Fe. Rule 8.

Fe is spelled 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With f, e, as Felicity.
• 2. With f, ee, as Feeding.
• 3. With f, i, e, as Field.
• 4. With P, h, e, as Pherecides

Fi. Rule 9.

Fi is spelled 3 ways, Viz.

• 1. With F, i, as Fidelity.
• 2. With p, h, i, as Philosophy.
• 3. With p, h, y, as Physitian.

Why is fa, fe, fi, fo, fu, spelled sometime with f, & sometime with ph.

Because neither the Greek nor the Hebrew Alphabet hath f; so Latine, English, and French Words, are spelled with f, but [Page]Words comming from Hebrew or Greek with ph, as Fine, Pha­res, Pherecide, Phillip, Pho­cus, and Phut gave fair Phillis a fillup o'th Cheek.

Fra. Rule 10.

Fra is spelled 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With f. r, a, as Fraction.
• 2. With f, r, a, i, as Frailty.
• 3. With f, r, a, y, as to frail from the Fray.
• 4. With p, h, r, a, as Phrases.

Fre. Rule 11.

Free is spelled 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With f, r, e, as Fresh.
• 2. With f, r, ee, as Freedom.
• 3. With f, r, i, e, as Friend.
• 4. With p, h, r, e, as Phrensie.

Fro. Rule 12.

Fro is spelled 2 ways, Viz.

• 1. With f, r, o, as Frolique.
• 2. With p, h, r, o, as Hermophro­dite.

Re. Rule 13.

Re is spelled 4 ways, Viz.

• 1. With r, e, as Restitution.
• 2. With r, e, a, as Read.
• 3. With r, ee, as Reed or Cane.
• 4. With r, h, e, as Rhetorick.

Ro. Rule 14.

Ro is spelled 3 ways, Viz.

• 1. With r, o, as Romance.
• 2. With r, oo, as Room in Rome.
• 3. With r, h, o, as Rhodope.

Se. Rule 15.

Se is spelled 8 ways, Viz.

• 1. With c, e, as Celestial.
• 2. With c, e, i, as Conceive.
• 3. With c, i, e, as Cieling.
• 4. With s, c, e, as Scepter.
• 5. With s, c, h, e, as Schedule.
• 6. With s, e, as Severity.
• 7. With s, ee, as Seemingly.
• 8. With z, e, as Hezekiah.
• 9. With s, i, e, as Siege.

Si. Rule 16.

Si is spelled 11 ways, Viz.

• 1. With c, i, as Circumspection.
• 2. With c, y, as Cylinder.
• 3. With s, c, h, i, as Schismatical.
• 4. With s, c, i, as Science.
• 5. With s, i, as Simeonites.
• 6. With s, i, e, as Synterisie.
• 7. With s, c, y, as Scythian.
• 8. With s, y, as Sycophant.
• 9. With t, i, as Repetition.
• 10. With z, i, as Amzi.
• 11. With z, y, as Zymbraus.

Here followeth Examples for the aforesaid Syllables.

Ac.

Acca, accad, Isaac, accent, ac­ept, access, inaccessible, acquire, equisition, pinnacle, Acshaph, Pa­sach, Taanach, Achbor, Berodach, Stomach, Shop-hack, Habbakkuk, Ishbak, Jehozadak, Akkub, Bak­buk.

Ec.

Effect, select, confectioner, de­fect, neglect, deject, project, pro­tect, perfect.

Ca.

Cag, Cage, cacophony, calm, cast, calamity, Cadesh, Micah, Ec­clesiastical, pervicacy, Caitiffe, Mordecai, Zaccai, day, decay, cha­os, character, Rechab, Issachar, Hachalia, Sheehamiah, Olika, kad­miel, Ahikam, Kallai, Azrikam, Bakbukkar, Miphkad, Kekaniah, Elkana, Azekah.

Ke.

Zacchens, Chedorlaomer, Senna­cherib, Chephirah, Kedemoth.

Ki.

Kib, kibe, kick, kidron, kinderkin, kindle, kish, kittim, kishi, hezekiah, Chyrurgeon, Zidkijah, Catechism, archite [...] chirography, Jachin, Ja­chish, hachila, alchymy, alchymists, chymera.

Co.

Sycophant, tekoites, sycomore, cook, cool, cooper, couzen not your cousin, melancholy.

Fa.

Fact, face, faction, fashion, fami­liarity, fair, faith, phares, phantasy, fantastical, not faulty, not guilty.

Fe.

Fellowship, festivity, feeble, fee, feed, feel, counterfeit, propheti­cally, topheth.

Fi.

Fidelity, fiction, figure, filial, firm, firmament, finish.

Fra.

Fraction, frangible, fraught, fra­ternity, frail, fraie or scare-away, fray or scuffle, or skirmish.

Fro.

Frock, frolick, frontlet, frontier, hermophrodite, epaphroditus.

Re.

Recreate, remain, respect, recoil, reiterate, restitution, reverence, rhegium, rhenish, rhetorique, rhe­torician, rhetorically, rheumatick.

Ro.

Rochester, rogation, romance, corroboration, corroborate, incor­rigible, root, roof, Rhodes, [...], Rhodians, Rhodog [...]e, Rhodope, Rhone, Rhoxane.

Ce.

Celestial, celebrate, ceremony, certain, concerning, deceive, per­ceive, receive, deceitful, sealing, seal'd, seal, sceleton, scene, scepter, sceptick, schedule, second, secresie severe, securely, secure, security seriously, seed, succeedeth, Hezekiah; Zerubbabel, Baalzebub, Zedary, Zone.

Si.

Silence, consider, sinister, similitude, sighing, easie, poesie, synteresie, reconcile, incite, scismatical schism, science, conscientiousness lasciviousness, scilicet, cyb, cymbal, cymical, cypress, action, secti­on, scythian, sycophant, syllable.