Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Persia and the Persians
The use of i in the spelling of Oriental words where e, for those employing the English language, would more correctly represent the actual pronunciation, is an anomaly that can be accounted for only on the ground that the Latins preceded the anglo-saxons in the East, and with them i is always 6. But in retaining the Latin orthography we forget that i in the Continental languages never has the long i sound peculiar to the English tongue.
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