EADIE

27 E E—, the second vowel and the fifth letter of the English alphabet. It occurs more frequently in English words than any other letter of the alphabet. Its long or natural sound in English coincides with the sound of 4in the Italian and French languages, as in here, mere, me. It has also another principal sound, a short one, heard in met, men. It has besides a sound like a in bare, as in there, where, ., and the obscure sound which is heard in ker. As a final letter in English it is generally silent, but it serves to indicate that the preceding vowel is to have its long sound, as in mane, cane, plume. When two e’s AW SS awe if On y sv ia" HH x) y wh ls i Mn} Ve yarwiy African Sea-Eagle «come together the sound is generally the same as that of the single e long, as in deem, esteem, need (compare, thowever, pre-exist, .), E, in music, is the third note or degree of the diatonic scale, answering to the mi of the Italians and French. EADIE (é’di), John, D.D., a Scottish preacher and_ theologian, born 1810, died 1876. He was educated at Glasgow University, and entered the ministry of the Sece ion Church, becoming in 1843 profe or of biblical literature in the Divinity Hall of the Church, a post which he continued to hold after the Sece ion body was merged in the United Presbyterian Church (in 1847). Among his works are Biblical Cyclopedia; Analytical Concordance to the Scritptures; Ecclesiastical Cyclopedia; Commentary on the Greek Text of Ephesians, aud similar works on Colo i ans, Philip pians, and Galatians; and The English Bible. He was one of the scholars engaged on the ey ned Version of the New Testament.