15. Sometimes the letters _a e_, and _o e_, are printed together, like
one letter, as in the words Caesar, Coelebs, and then the syllable is
pronounced as if it were spelled with _e_ alone, as in the following
words:
16. Diaeresis, Aphaeresis, OEcumenical, AEthiop, Subpoena,
Encyclopaedia, Phoenix, Phoebus, AEolus.
17. When there are two little dots over one of the letters, they are
both to be sounded, as in the word Aerial, which is pronounced
a-e-ri-al.
18. The letter _c_ is one which puzzles many young persons who are
learning to read, because it is sometimes pronounced like _k_, as in the
word _can_, and sometimes like _s_, as in the word _cent_; and they do
not know when to pronounce it like _k_, and when to sound it like _s_.
19. But if you will recollect that _c_ is sounded like _k_ when it
stands before the letters _a_, _o_, or _u_, and that it is sounded like
_s_ before the letters _e_, _i_, and _y_, you will have very little
trouble in reading words that have the letter _c_ in them.
20. So also the letter _g_ has two sounds, called the hard sound, and
the soft sound.
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