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All vowels are sounded as in French and Italian; and there are no
diphthongs, every vowel being pronounced distinctly. The consonants are
the same as in English, except
_w_, which is sounded like _v_, at the beginning of a word; thus,
Warsawa--_Varsafa_; in the middle or at the end of a word it has the
sound of _f_, as in the instance already cited; and Narew--_Nareff_.
_c_, like _tz_, and never like _k_; thus, Pac is sounded _Patz_.
_g_, like _g_ in Gibbon; thus, _Oginski_.
_ch_, like the Greek [Greek: ch] or _k_; thus, Lech--_Lek_.
_cz_, like the English _tch_ in pitch;--thus, Czartoryski pronounce
_Tchartoryski_.
_sz_, like _sh_ in _shape_; thus, Staszyc like _Stashytz_.
_szcz_, like _shtch_; thus, Szczerbiec like _Shtcherbietz_.
_rz_, like _j_ in _je_, with a slight sound of _r_; thus,
Rzewuski--_Rjevuski_.
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WHITE'S BAMPTON LECTURES.
Dr. Dibdin has prefixed the subsequent Note to one of these Lectures
(Character of Christ compared with that of Mahomet), which he has
reprinted in vol. iii. of the _Sunday Library_:--
"Of all the sermons preached in this, or in any other country,
THESE are perhaps the most celebrated; or, if this observation
require qualification, the only exception may be in favour of
those of the _Petit Careme_ of MASILLON.
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