shape ఔ is never used; అవు avu or awn, being substituted; and the V or W being silent as already shewn, this is pronounced aw or au. Thus అవుట awta or avuta (to become) which in the dictionary is Vio auta pronounced like the English word outer. Thus ఔదార్యం audaryam 'generosity' ^^pSP aunnatyam 'loftiness' are commonly written ఔదార్యం, ఔన్నత్యం but the pronunciation remains unaltered. In these Sanscrit words this change is not approved.*
The sign _/ is (very needlessly) retained in combination with au as regards some letters. Thus మౌ mau, యౌ "హౌ hau.
The following are the shapes used, కౌ ఖౌ గౌ ఘౌ చౌ చౌ జౌ ఝౌ టౌ ఠౌ డౌ ఢౌ ణౌ తౌ థౌ దౌ ధౌ నౌ పౌ ఫౌ బౌ భౌమౌ యౌ రౌ లౌ ళౌ శౌ షౌ హౌ క్షౌ
Throughout the grammar I have used the common forme of the initial vowels. For the sake of uniformity in the dictionary, however, monosyllabic forms of ai and au are used. Thus for the words పయిట payita (a woman's veil) and కౌజు cavuzu (a partridge) we must use the spelling పైట and కౌజు. Sanscrit words invariably use the monosyllabic forms. Telugu words use these or the dissyllabic forms at pleasure. Poets adopt whichever form suits the metre; thus కౌగిలి cau-gi-li (an embrace) is a dactyl formed of a long syllable and two shorts. But this may be written కవుగిలి cavugili (four shorts) or by inserting O (that is N,) poets write S^oftS cavungili whereby the second syllable becomes long.
Thus, besides the forms exhibited in the alphabet the vowels take "the following forms; both in poems and in every day business.
- Few of the Telugus arc able to pronounce the short vowel o in the English words lost, hot, horse, top, God, law, lord, order, which they make లాస్తు, హాటు, హౌసు, టాపు, గాడు, లా, లాడు ఆర్ దరు. thus born becomes barn, God, guard, and former, farmer. In the Telugu newspapers Hong Kong is spelt హంగు, కొంగు Hangu-Kangu. In English neither sound is used unless in some districts as Derbyshire where honey and more arc pronounced in the ancient manner: the sounds are quite different from those of rod and rode.
