The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
aflerts, that dh are " iiniverfally quiefcent, or
*' at mofl: found like a y, in every dialed of the
" Cehic." And he re-afferts it in p. 148, fay-
ing that " Gaidhel,— as the dh are invariably
" quiefcent in Celtic words, is much the fame
*' with Gael." This is very true concerning the
Iri{h. But it is utterly untrue with regard to the
WelQi particularly. That is a principal dialect
of the Celtic. And the Wellh Guidhil, which is
die fame with the Irifh Gaidhel, and which Dr.
Macpherfon exprefsly afferts to be pronounced
like it, Gael S is not pronounced like it at all,
but actually and fully Guidhil.—We have alfo an
inftance of the fame nature in p. 130. There the
Welfh appellation for Ireland, Ywerdhon or
Yverdhon, Is faid exprefsly to be " pronounced
** Yberon or Yveron." And it is really pronounced,
as it is written, Ywerdhon. — The
author's and his friend's acquaintance with " every
" dialect of the Celtic," did not extend to the
Welih. And his obfervation of the invariable
quiefcence of the dh in Celtic, and his friend's
remark on the pronunciation of the word Guid-
hil, were both drawn, we fee, from a view of
the lri(h only.
See p. 97.
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