Upward and Downward Sh.

Par. 67. - Use ish: Abash, ambush, marshy, Ishmael, coyish, unshod, charade, famish, Russia, push, shy, hush, oceanic, barouche, shank, perish, shadowy, gnash, cashier, wash, shearer, bushy, rush, gush, mash.

Use shay: Dash, sheave, fish, abolished, whitish, shelve, lavish, shyly, foolish, cheviot, polishing, Shiloh, toyshop, elfish, shell, foreshadow.

Dictation Exercise

Acacia, apish, ash, ashy, Asia, Ashby, ashore, Ashantee, babyish, bearish, bishop, boyish, bush, bullrush, cassia, cash, calabash, chamois, cherish, Chicago, doggish, foppish, gash, gush, gushingly, hash, Irish, issue, issued, Jewish, Joshua, mash, marsh, mashed, mawkish, mesh, mush, Nashua, Nashville, newish, Oceanica, pasha, parish, Persia, pish, popish, rash, rakish, reissue, Romish, roguish, rush, rubbish, Shaw, shah, shape, shabby, shame, sham, Shawnee, shake, shag, shaggy, share, shade, shad, shampoo, shamrock, shady, shadow, shabbily, shaming, shamming, shanty, she, sheep, Sheba, Shem, sheath, sheathe, sheer, sherry, shed, Shenandoah, sheepish, sheathing, ship, shiny, shied, shipwreck, shipshape, shiboleth, shod, show, showy, shoe, shop, showish, shock, shook, shore, shower, showery, showed, shoed, shoetie, unshady, unsheathe, unsheathing, washy, Wabash, waggish, wish.

Ashley, chevalier, dashing, dish, dishing, efficiency, fishy, fireship, knavish, lashed, lavishing, polished, ravish, ravishing, shave, shaving, shawl, shale, shallow, shallop, shallowly, sheaf, Shelby, shelf, shilling, shoal, shoaly, shove, shoving, Theodosia, tissue, toyish, tush, wettish.

EXERCISE XVII. Mp and Mb.

When a vowel comes between the two consonants use the two strokes:

Mope, moped, map, mapped, mop, mopped, Mab, mob, mobbed.

When no vowel intervenes, use the stroke :

Imp, dump, limp, bumping, temple, Pompeii, amply, impel, rumple, lamp, dimple, jump, camp, shampoo, umpire.

Limbo, timbal, embargo, ambiguity, rumble, embalm, nimbly, bamboo, fumble.

Dictation Exercise

Ample, bump, camping, champ, chump, damp, damping, dumpy, dumping, empire, empower, impale, impair, impede, impeach, impiety, impute, impure, jumping, limply, lump, pimple, pomp, Pompey, pump, ramp, romp, rump, tamping, thump, thumping, wampum.

Ambush, Bombay, embark, embalming, embower, embowering, embody, imbuing, jumble, mumble, nimble, ramble, reembody, shamble, thimble, tumble, unimbued.