SECTION V.

REGULAR SOUNDS OF THE VOWELS.

SHORT SOUNDS.

Two or more vowels combined, of which one only is

*By Exceptional sounds are here meant, as will be observed, those not included in the classes already treated of, and illustrated, as Regu lar and Occasional. Here is the proper place to bring up in review all the various vowel sounds,-Regular, Occasional, and Exceptional, and to make the distinctions indicated by these terms perfectly familiar.