A

CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY,

AND

EXPOSITOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

IN WHICH

NOT ONLY THE MEANING OF EVERY WORD IS EXPLAINED

AND THE

SOUND OF EVERY SYLLABLE DISTINCTLY SHOWN,

BUT, WHERE WORDS ARE SUBJECT TO DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATIONS, THE AUTHORITIES OF OUR BEST
PRONOUNCING DICTIONARIES ARE FULLY EXHIBITED, THE REASONS FOR EACH ARE AT
LARGE DISPLAYED, AND THE PREFERABLE PRONUNCIATION IS POINTED OUT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.

IN WHICH,

THE SOUNDS OF LETTERS, SYLLABLES, AND WORDS ARE CRITICALLY INVESTIGATLD AND SYSTEMATI
CALLY ARRANGED; THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREEK AND LATIN ACCENT AND QUANTITY, ON
THE ACCENT AND QUANTITY OF THE ENGLISH, IS THOROUGHLY EXAMINED AND CLEARLY
DEFINED; AND THE ANALOGIES OF THE LANGUAGE ARE SO FULLY SHOWN, AS TO
LAY THE FOUNDATION OF A CONSISTENT AND RATIONAL PRONUNCIATIOS,

LIKEWISE,

RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THE

Natives of Scotland, Freland and London,

FOR AVOIDING THEIR RESPECTIVE PECULIARITIES;

AND DIRECTIONS TO FOREIGNERS, FOR ACQUIRING A KNOWLEDGE OF THE
USE OF THIS DICTIONARY.

THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH

OBSERVATIONS, ETYMOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, AND GRAMMATICAL.

"Quare, si fieri potest, & verba omnia, & vox, hujus alumnum urbis oleant: ut oratio Romana
planè videatur, non civitate donata."-QUINTILIAN.

TO THE CLASSICAL PRONUNCIATION OF

GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES, &c.

BY JOHN WALKER,

AUTHOR OF ELEMENTS OF ELOCUTION, RHYMING DICTIONARY, &c.

STEREOTYPED BY B. AND J. COLLINS, NEW YORK,

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY COLLINS AND HANNAY,

NO. 230, PEARL STREET.

1819.