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Show The "re" anil "V". Dy a rule ot our accidence y Is changed to 1 whenever -ca or -ed Is added to a word ending In y after a conaonant, but no change la mado when e or -cd la added to a word ending end-ing In y after a vowel. Familiar example!, ex-ample!, betldea money, aro bay, key toy, buy, kidney, attorney, chimney! donkey, Journey, alley, pulley, valley. Nothing can be laid agalntt tho change of y to I, aeelng that In earlier tlmca thero waa scarcely any dlitlnc tlon between the two vowela, but there la Bomethlng monttroua In tho thought of changing the combination! ey Into le when we would add - and Into I' when wo would add -ed. "Monlea" and "honied" are In theie daya oddl-tlea, oddl-tlea, reconcilable, like "donkles," "monktes." etc., only with Ignorance Notes and Queries, |