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ALPHABETIC TABLE
BY WHICH BOYS ARE
easily led to the true and orthographic reading of the Latin language.

A typographic diagram consists of five columns of consonant clusters bracketed by vowels on the left and right sides, illustrating syllable formation.

EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES.

Any one of the five vowels prefixed to this table, joined with any of the consonants, simply gives a syllable; for the sake of example: Ab, eb, ib, ob, ub. Ac, ec. Ad, ed, etc. And conversely: Ba, be, bi, bo, bu. Ca, ce, etc. Da, de, etc. Furthermore, two or three consonants joined together at the same time are never separated while teaching, but when always placed before the five vowels, they make an entire syllable: As Bda, bla, bra, cta, mna. For one should not teach Ab-do-men. Likewise, Ab-la-ti-o, Ab-ra-ham, sancti, om-nis. But rather, Ab-domen, ab-latio, Abra-ham, sanc-ti, om-nis.