Orthography, Etymology, and PunctuationA. Flanagan Company, 1908 |
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... become exceedingly interesting and profitable . Part IV , on Punctuation , presents the essentials of cor- rect punctuation , -illustrated by numerous examples . It is almost superfluous to say that John Wilson's " Treatise on ...
... become exceedingly interesting and profitable . Part IV , on Punctuation , presents the essentials of cor- rect punctuation , -illustrated by numerous examples . It is almost superfluous to say that John Wilson's " Treatise on ...
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... becomes u ; as , rude , rural . This sound of u is essentially the same as that of oo in food . U is silent in plague , rogue , tongue , gauge , guard , guess , guide , build , etc. After q , s , or g , and before another vowel , u ...
... becomes u ; as , rude , rural . This sound of u is essentially the same as that of oo in food . U is silent in plague , rogue , tongue , gauge , guard , guess , guide , build , etc. After q , s , or g , and before another vowel , u ...
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... become an indispensable qualification of a linguistic scholar , and he who cannot take to pieces his native utterance , and give a tolerably exact account of every item in it , lacks the true foundation on which everything else should ...
... become an indispensable qualification of a linguistic scholar , and he who cannot take to pieces his native utterance , and give a tolerably exact account of every item in it , lacks the true foundation on which everything else should ...
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... becomes sonant , like z , in a few words , as , suffice , sacrifice , discern . C followed by e or i and another vowel in the same syllable has the sound of sh ; as , ocean , oceanic . Hard c is found before a , o , and u , or a ...
... becomes sonant , like z , in a few words , as , suffice , sacrifice , discern . C followed by e or i and another vowel in the same syllable has the sound of sh ; as , ocean , oceanic . Hard c is found before a , o , and u , or a ...
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... become so wholly obscure in pronunciation . The tendency of uneducated people is to corrupt the sounds of vowels in unaccented syllables . Walker , the lexicographer , says , " There is scarcely anything more distinguishes a per- son of ...
... become so wholly obscure in pronunciation . The tendency of uneducated people is to corrupt the sounds of vowels in unaccented syllables . Walker , the lexicographer , says , " There is scarcely anything more distinguishes a per- son of ...
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abbreviation accent Anglo-Saxon apostrophe becomes English black boot-black boot breath called câre cent clause cognate colon comma common compound word consonant containing the sound dash derived diacritical marks digraph diphthongs diphthongs and triphthongs doctor doctor English alphabet English language Exception exercise final syllable five examples following words French give given grammar Greek homonyms hyphen illustrate Indo-European languages labial labio-dental Latin marks of parenthesis meaning medial misspelled modified mute nouns omitted orthoepy paragraph paronyms penult period Phoenician Phoenician alphabet phrase plural prefix pronounced pronunciation punctuation pupils quotation Repeat RULE represent root RULE VII semicolon semivowels sentence separate silent silent letters sometimes sonant sound of g sound of long spelling suffix surd syllable synonyms teacher thistles tion tongue trigraphs triphthong unaccented syllables usually verb vowel vowel sounds WEBSTER Webster's Dictionary white boot-black WORCESTER words containing Write ten words written
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