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Rh word, and when an affix containing the vowel a or ă has to be added:

With some of the words which have had the e modified into é the sound of e has subsequently disappeared; thus—

It is only by the plural that we discover that the a of the singular is a modification of e.

ochanges into ó (oa) when we affix to the word, in which it occurs accented, a syllable containing one of the vowels a, ă, e:

Note.—This modification is not made in imported words, or in neologisms:

It is impossible, however, to attempt to alter those cases in