It. its chief use
    —­declined
    —­to what creatures may be applied
    —­put for the distance, ("How far do you call IT?” &c., PRIESTL.,)
    —­without definite reference to an anteced.
    —­as explet., and referring to something expressed afterwards; faulty
      omission of, before verb, in such construc.
    —­had formerly no variation of cases
    —­its poss. form ITS, for of it, of recent origin, and not found in
      the text of the common Bible
    —­wrongly excluded by some from the list of pers. pronouns: 
    —­its derivation from Sax., traced

Italic letters, Italics, some account of
    —­for what purpose used
    —­how denoted in preparing manuscripts

J.

J, its name and plur. numb.
    —­why never doubled
    —­why never ends a word in Eng.
    —­impropriety of dividing on the letter, in syllabication
    —­sounds of,

Johnson, Dr. S., his authority in Eng. orthography

Joint nominatives, agreem. of verb with
    —­whether words connected by with can be used as. Joint
      antecedents, agreem. of pron. with
    —­of different persons, agreem. of verb or pron. with, in ellipt.
      construc.

Jumbling together of the active voice and the passive, the manner of some
    —­Jumbling, senseless, Crit.  N. censuring

K.

K, its name and plur.
    —­in general, not needed in words derived from the learned languages
    —­its sounds
    —­when silent
    —­Two Kays standing together

Kind, sort, with these or those improp. preceding

L.

L, its name and plur. numb.
    —­of the class liquids
    —­final, monosyllables ending in
    —­final double, to what words peculiar
    —­its sound; in what words silent
    —­where doubled
    —­written for a number

Labial letters, how articulated

Language, the primitive sense of the term, what embraced; signif. of do.,
as now used
    —­in opposition to some grammarians, BROWN confines the term to speech
      and writing
    —­loose explanations of the word by certain slack thinkers; WEBST.
      notion of
    —­SHERID. idea of; KIRKH. wild and contradictory teachings concerning
    —­Language, PROPRIETY of, in what consists; IMPROPRIETY of, what
      embraces
    —­PRECISION of, in what consists; Precepts concerning its opposites
    —­Language, Eng., (see English Language)
    —­Languages, uniform SERIES OF GRAMMARS for teaching the Eng., Lat.,
      and Gr., that of DR. BULL., noticed