Crossword-Solution: CHETH 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Now that my wealth is gone, and honor has become exiled from Israel; now that I am a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and I have no money: now, I have returned to seek the book of God, as it is said, [Hebrew: cheth-samech-vav-resh-yod mem-cheth-samech-resh-aleph vav-hey-chaf-yod qof-tav-nun-yod], 'He is in sore need, therefore he studies.'" This is witty, but it is not wise.

The letter _Cheth_ Milton read as _ch_, but _Kaf_ he read as _c_, sounded hard probably, as so many English readers of Hebrew do at the present day.

The Indians, in attempting to utter the word _English_, with their broad guttural accent, gave it a sound which would be nearly represented in this way, _Yaunghees;_ the letter _g_ being pronounced hard, and approaching to the sound of _k_ joined with a strong aspirate, like the Hebrew _cheth_, or the Greek _chi_, and the _l_ suppressed, as almost impossible to be distinctly heard in that combination.

Footnote 47: ‘Item, payde to Hew Watson, for a bawdrike to the first belle, x_d._’ (1546.) (Churchwardens’ Accounts at Ludlow, Camden Soc.) ‘Item, for markynge of Hew Davis’ pew, xii_d._’ (1552.) (do.) Footnote 48: ‘Hugyn held of the same Earl an oxgang of land.’ (De Lacy Inquisit., Cheth.

Footnote 83: I am confirmed in my view by finding ‘Eliot’ registered as ‘Alyott.’ ‘Alyott de Symondston held half an oxgang of land, xix_d._’ (De Lacy Inquisition (1311) Cheth.