The following Remarks of Reference, with the work itself, will enable the reader to form some idea of the construction of the language. It never, however, usurps the pronunciation of s, as in the English words cistern city, cedar, etc. CH has a hard or harsh sound, which sound is not in the English language. D is pronounced as d , an English, in drone, dunnal , etc. But D , in other words, as if written as pronounced dh , as in DAA, DOO, etc.
H is pronounced as h in the words hand, hind, hold, etc., in English.
J is pronounced exactly like the soft English g and is perfectly uniform in its sound. This letter has precisely the sound of hard c in English and is never silent as the English knee, knave, know etc. When O is circumflexed as in bone, shone, open etc. O before l in Manks sounds OHL . This is a hard consonant and pronounced as p in English.