“Do we sound gases and gaseous like cases and caseous? No:  they are more like glasses and osseous.”—­G.  Brown.  “I shall not need here to mention Swiming, when he is of an age able to learn.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 12.  “Why do lexicographers spell thinnish and mannish with two Ens, and dimish and ramish with one Em, each?”—­See Johnson and Webster. “Gas forms the plural regularly, gases.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 38.  “Singular, Gas; Plural, Gases.”—­S.  W. Clark’s Gram., p. 47.  “These are contractions from sheded, bursted.”—­Hiley’s Grammar, p. 45.  “The Present Tense denotes what is occuring at the present time.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 36, and p. 61.  “The verb ending in eth is of the solemn or antiquated style; as, he loveth, he walketh, he runeth.”—­P.  Davis’s Gram., p. 34.

   “Thro’ freedom’s sons no more remonstrance rings,
    Degrading nobles and controling kings.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 292.

UNDER RULE IV.—­NO DOUBLING.

“A bigotted and tyrannical clergy will be feared.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 78.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the final t of bigot is here doubled in “bigotted.”  But, according to Rule 4th, “A final consonant, when it is not preceded by a single vowel, or when the accent is not on the last syllable, should remain single before an additional syllable.”  Therefore, this t should be single; thus, bigoted.]

“Jacob worshipped his Creator, leaning on the top of his staff.”—­Key in Merchant’s Gram., p. 185.  “For it is all marvelously destitute of interest.”—­Merchant’s Criticisms.  “As, box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus, rebusses.”—­Murray’s Gram., 12mo, p. 42.  “Gossipping and lying go hand in hand.”—­Old Maxim.  “The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossipped by the present precious secretary of war, in Payne the bookseller’s shop.”—­See Key.  “Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 72.  “I became as fidgetty as a fly in a milk-jug.”—­Blackwood’s Mag., Vol. xl, p. 674.  “That enormous error seems to be rivetted in popular opinion.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 364.  “Whose mind iz not biassed by personal attachments to a sovereign.”—­Ib., p. 318.  “Laws against usury originated in a bigotted prejudice against the Jews.”—­Ib., p. 315.  “The most criticcal period of life iz usually between thirteen and seventeen.”—­Ib., p. 388.  “Generallissimo, the chief commander of an army or military force.”—­See El.  Spelling-Book, p. 93.  “Tranquillize,