The hard sound is the sound given to it in the word
_gone_; the soft sound is that which is heard in the word _gentle_.
21. The same rule which you have just learnt with regard to the letter
_c_ applies to the letter _g_. It has its hard sound before _a_, _o_,
and _u_, and its soft sound before _e_, _i_, and _y_.
22. There are, it is true, some words where this rule is not applied;
but these words are very few, so that you may safely follow this rule in
most words.
23. The letters _ph_ are sounded like _f_. The letters _ch_ are sounded
sometimes like _k_, as in the words _loch_ and _monarch_, and sometimes
like _sh_, as in the words _chaise_ and _charade_; and they have
sometimes a sound which cannot be represented by any other letters, as
in the words _charm_ and _chance_.
24. I suppose that you have probably learned most of these things which
I have now told you in your spelling-book; but I have repeated them in
this book, because I have so often found that little boys and girls are
very apt to forget what they have learned.
25. If you recollect them all, it will do you no harm to read them
again, but it will impress them more deeply on your memory.
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