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tual. When th is followed by more than three consonants, it shall lose its character of One thousand and be considered a 1;—thus Thoroughfare will represent 143,294, one hundred and forty-three thousand, two hundred and ninety-four this rule will be found easy and effectual. One doubt more may arise in the word Thither, in which th occurs twice; this can be remedied by making the second, hold its character of thousand, but the former th to be a 1 and 2—it will become by this mode, 12,004: Thrash, by the same rule, 124,000. But these exceptions may be left aside without any inconvenience; nor can they be urged as a cause for abandoning th, which is found to be so generally useful.
The objections to Y may be in those words, which begin and end with it; but they can be overcome, by considering in all such cases, the final Y as a vowel. As Yearly may be viewed as if the y were an i, Yearli, which would therefore be one million and forty-five: Yeomanry, one million, three hundred and twenty-four.
