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If this distinction were not attended to, and th always understood to be One thousand, the word Faith might be called ninety-one thousand. Doth is 6000, Willeth 855,000, a rude oath 46,000, &c. &c. Where tн occurs in a word, preceded and terminated by a consonant or consonants, it is in the same manner to be considered as designating thousand. The word Neither will be 2004, n being 2, the th thousand, and r a 4. Mouthful is 3095, Worthless, 84,500.
It may be considered, that by this application of th, those letters can never be used as 1 and 2, but they can with perfect safety: Whenever they are found in a word or sentence not combined, as th, they have their original characters, 1 and 2, Tense being 120, Hand 226. If they even occur in the same word, not combined, they are still to be considered distinct. Phæton is 9212. The word Ought is 321: here the h is before the t; the latter must always precede it, to express 1000, or thousand.
Th being the initial letters of thousand, may be easily recollected.
As in the great variety of arrangements with figures, th already given, though extremely useful, may not be very easily applied in some instances, we make another character, which is to represent Thousand only, not One thousand. The letters sh, when joined together, have this power = thus the word Rash is 4000, Clash, 75,000, Flash, 95,000; but in the beginning of a word followed by a consonant or consonants, it does not differ from its former classification. The word Shun, is one hundred and twenty-two; Sheriff is 12,499.
To express one million, and million, we use the vowel y, which has nearly the same powers applied to millions, that th has to thousands. The word you is one million, as are
