A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...: To which is Annexed a Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, &cCollins & Hannay, 1819 - 712 pages |
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... common con- versation ; but when they are required to pronounce with emphasis , and for that purpose to be more distinct and definite in their utterance , here their ear fails them ; they have been accustomed only to loose cursory ...
... common con- versation ; but when they are required to pronounce with emphasis , and for that purpose to be more distinct and definite in their utterance , here their ear fails them ; they have been accustomed only to loose cursory ...
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... common definition of a vowel be just , these two letters are so far from being simple vowels , that they may more properly be called semi - consonant diphthongs . 9. That y and w are consonants when they begin a word , and vowels when ...
... common definition of a vowel be just , these two letters are so far from being simple vowels , that they may more properly be called semi - consonant diphthongs . 9. That y and w are consonants when they begin a word , and vowels when ...
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... common to all the vowels , there is a certain transient indistinct pronunciation of some of them , when they are not accented , that cannot be so easily settled . When the accent is not tipon it , no vowel is more apt to run into this ...
... common to all the vowels , there is a certain transient indistinct pronunciation of some of them , when they are not accented , that cannot be so easily settled . When the accent is not tipon it , no vowel is more apt to run into this ...
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... common sound , be written pallus , sollus , & c . while furnace almost changes the a into i , and might be written furniss . 92. When the a is preceded by the gutturals , hard g or c , it is , in polite pronunciation , softened by the ...
... common sound , be written pallus , sollus , & c . while furnace almost changes the a into i , and might be written furniss . 92. When the a is preceded by the gutturals , hard g or c , it is , in polite pronunciation , softened by the ...
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... common sound of this letter in the words clerk , serjeant , and a few others , where we find the e pronounced like the a in dark and margin . But this exception , I imagine , was , till within these few years , the general rule of ...
... common sound of this letter in the words clerk , serjeant , and a few others , where we find the e pronounced like the a in dark and margin . But this exception , I imagine , was , till within these few years , the general rule of ...
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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contrary corrupt costiveness derived Dictionary diphthong distinct DOMESTICK dress enclitical English Entick fåll får fåt fât mè favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard herb horse Johnson Kenrick kind language last syllable Latin Latin language letter liquor long sound manner mark Mason mean ment mêt pine mind môve når Nares neral ness nỏ noise nôt tùbe noun nounced observed Obsolete Orthoepy orthography participle penultimate Perry person pîn place the accent plant plural Preter preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme ridan rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan ship short sound shortening signifies species spelling tåb termination thing tion triphthong unaccented v. a. To put verb vessel violence vowel vulgar word written
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Page 54 - As emphasis evidently points out the most significant word in a sentence ; so, where other reasons do not forbid, the accent always dwells with greatest force on that part of the word which, from its importance, the hearer has always the greatest occasion to observe : and this is necessarily the root or body of the word.
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