XIV INTRODUCTION.

Arabic words spelled various ways by the

same author (I have committed the same error

myself) ; but in the following work 1 have adopted a plan to correct this prevailing error

in Oriental orthography, which, I think, ought

to be followed by every Oriental scholar, as the

only correct way of transcribing them in English

;

viz. by writing them exactly according to the

original Arabic orthography, substituting gr (not

gh^ as Richardson directs) for the Arabic guttural

c grain, and hh for the guttural k ox ;l., —

Note, We should be careful not to copy the orthography of Oriental or African names from

the French, which has too often been done, al- though their pronunciation of European letters

is very dissimilar from our own.