* Deborah.-The learned editor of Labbe tells us, that this word has the pequltimate long, both in Greek and Hebrew; and yet he observes that our clergy, when reading the Holy Scriptures to the people in English, always pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable; " and why not," says he, “when they place "the accent on the first syllable of orator, auditor, and successor? But,' continues he, "I suppose they accent them otherwise when they speak Latin," Who doubts it?

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* Emmaus.-This word is often very improperly pronounced in two syllables,

as if divided into Emmaus.