PREFATORY NOTE
By the Rev. G. U. Pope, m.a., d.d.
The author of this grammar has asked me to write a
few words of introduction to it. It gives me much pleasure to say that on carefully examining it I find that it gives a
very correct and lucid summary of the chief facts of the
spoken language, and that it will be a valuable introduction,
to the larger books. It cannot be too strongly impressed,
upon the student that every word must be connected in the mind with some useful sentence, which must be repeatedly
written and pronounced. Nothing will compensate for the
absence of this mechanical drill. It is of real importance
that the student should carefully note the pronunciation of
the Tamil character த் when it occurs singly in the middle
of a word, as explained on page 9; otherwise the use of
the transliterative symbol ḏ for this sound of the letter
might be a stumbling-block. I sincerely hope that the book
may have a wide circulation ; and that in any future edition th may be substituted for d,
Oxford, 1906.
