UNDER RULE XI.—­OF FINAL Y.

“Solon’s the veryest fool in all the play.”—­Dryden, from Persius, p. 475.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “veryest” here retains the final y of its primitive very.  But, according to Rule 13th, “The final y of a primitive word, when preceded by a consonant, is generally changed into i before an additional termination.”  Therefore, this y should be changed to i; thus, veriest.]

“Our author prides himself upon his great slyness and shrewdness.”—­Merchant’s Criticisms.  “This tense, then, implys also the signification of Debeo.”—­B.  Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 300.  “That may be apply’d to a Subject, with respect to something accidental.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “This latter accompanys his Note with a distinction.”—­Ib., p. 196.  “This Rule is defective, and none of the Annotators have sufficiently supply’d it.”—­Ib., p. 204.  “Though the fancy’d Supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus, may take place.”—­Ib., p. 276.  “Yet as to the commutableness of these two Tenses, which is deny’d likewise, they are all one.”—­Ib., p. 311.  “Both these Tenses may represent a Futurity implyed by the dependence of the Clause.”—­Ib., p. 332.  “Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shyer, shyest, shyly, shyness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, dryly, dryness.”—­Cobb’s Dict. “Cry, cried, crying, crier, cryer, decried, decrier, decrial; Shy, shyly, shily, shyness, shiness; Fly, flier, flyer, high-flyer; Sly, slily, slyly, sliness, slyness; Ply, plyer, plying, pliers, complied, compiler; Dry, drier, dryer, dryly, dryness.”—­Webster’s Dict., 8vo.  “Cry, crier, decrier, decrial; Shy, shily, shyly, shiness, shyness; Fly, flier, flyer, high-flier; Sly, slily, slyly, sliness, slyness; Ply, pliers, plyers, plying, complier; Dry, drier, dryer, dryly, dryness.”—­Chalmers’s Abridgement of Todd’s Johnson.  “I would sooner listen to the thrumming of a dandyzette at her piano.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 24.  “Send her away; for she cryeth after us.”—­Felton’s Gram., p. 140.  “IVYED, a. Overgrown with ivy.”—­Todd’s Dict., and Webster’s.

   “Some dryly plain, without invention’s aid,
    Write dull receipts how poems may be made.”—­Pope.

UNDER RULE XII.—­OF FINAL Y.

“The gaiety of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age.”—­Mur.  Key, p. 175.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “gaiety” does not here retain the final y of the primitive word gay.  But, according to Rule 12th, “The final y of a primitive word, when preceded by a vowel, should not be changed into i before an additional termination.”  Therefore, this y should be retained; thus, gayety.]