FYZABAD, fiz'o-bad, British India, a divi sion of Oudh, in the United Provinces. Its area is 12,000 square miles, with a population of 6,646,362. Agriculture is in a prosperous state; wheat, rice and other cereals being grown extensively. Other crops are cotton, tobacco and indigo. The capital is Fyzabad, near the river Gogra, 75 miles east of Lucknow. It is rich in ancient remains and is a holy city of the Hindus. It has sugar factories and trades in the agricultural products of the region. A Brit ish commissioner resides in Fyzabad. Pop. 54,600.
letter of the English alphabet and of other alphabets derived from the Latin. In very early Latin, G stood for the proper g-sound (g hard, as in go) and also for the k-sound of C, as in cup; afterward the k-sound was represented by K, while G continued to represent the sound of G hard; but K did not remain long in the Latin alphabet, being superseded by C (always hard and equiv alent to K). Both in Greek and Latin the gamma (r• G) was always the hard guttural in whatever situation, and hence geographia was pronounced gheographia, genus ghenus,
etc. The softening of g-hard to j when g pre cedes e, i or y, began to prevail the 6th century of our era, and it persists in the modern languages derived from Latin and in our own. In languages having words derived independently by each from some common stock, for example, the Indo-European lan guages, the interchange of chard, g-hard, k, and the aspirite gutturals ch, gh, is very common; examples : Eng. kin, Lat. genus, Gr. genos; Gr. then, Ger. gaps, Eng. goose; Gr. gnonai, archaic Lat. gnosco, Ger. kennen, Eng. ken; Lat. hester nus, Gr. chthes, Ger. gestern, Eng. yester: the same equivalence of g and y is seen in Ger. gelb, Eng. yellow ; Ger. gdhnen, Eng. yawn ; Ger. garn, Eng. yarn. In French words of Teutonic origin an original w is often repre sented by gu (equal to g-hard), thus Wilhelm becomes Guillaume; Ger. weisc, Fr. guise; Teu ton werra, Eng. war, Fr. guerre.