A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language: With Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical and Scripture Proper NamesHilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1839 - 400 pages |
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a-ble animal belonging bird body bûll bür capable chyle cloth color Dictionary disease fish flower fruit ful-ly ful-ness hard heraldry horse i-cal instrument kind manner medicine ment môve ness noise nör person pertaining piece plant relating resembling rûle.—Ç S. W. J. E. F. Ja ship sïr soft sound species stone substance syllable thing tion tree v. a. imp v. a. to beat v. a. to bring v. a. to cover v. a. to form v. a. to give v. a. to place v. a. to put v. a. to strike v. a. to take v. a. to throw v. n. to fall v. n. to grow v. n. to move v. n. to play versed vessel W. J. F. Ja W. P. J. F. Ja wind woman words
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Page xi - ... with the proper sound of short a, as in hat, has the appearance of affectation ; and to pronounce them with the full Italian sound of a, as in part, father, seems to border on vulgarism.
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