A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names: In which the Words are Accented and Divided Into Syllables Exactly as They Ought to be Pronounced, According to Rules Drawn from Analogy and the Best Usage : to which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latiln Proper Names, in which the Words are Arranged According to Their Final Syllables, and Classed According to Their Accents : by which the General Analogy of Pronunciation May be Seen at One View, and the Accentuation of Each Word More Earily Remembered : Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity : with Some Probable Conjectures on the Method of Freeing Them from the Obscurity and Confusion in which They are Involved, Both by the Ancients and Moderns ... |
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Page xv
... and there is scarcely any difficulty but in the position of the accent ; and this depends so much on the quantity of the vowels , that we need only inspect a dictionary to find the quantity of the penultimate vowel , and this ...
... and there is scarcely any difficulty but in the position of the accent ; and this depends so much on the quantity of the vowels , that we need only inspect a dictionary to find the quantity of the penultimate vowel , and this ...
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was long , the accent could scarcely be higher than the penultimate ; yet in our pronunciation of Greek ... and Deiphobey yet as the penultimate is short , the accent is placed on the antepenultimate , exactly as if they were Latin .
was long , the accent could scarcely be higher than the penultimate ; yet in our pronunciation of Greek ... and Deiphobey yet as the penultimate is short , the accent is placed on the antepenultimate , exactly as if they were Latin .
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Polysyllables , adopted whole from the Greek or Latin into English , have generally the accent of the Latin : that is , if the penultimate be long the accent is on it , as Severus , Democedes , & c . į if short , the accent is on the ...
Polysyllables , adopted whole from the Greek or Latin into English , have generally the accent of the Latin : that is , if the penultimate be long the accent is on it , as Severus , Democedes , & c . į if short , the accent is on the ...
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... according to our own analogy , with the accent on the antepenultimate syllable ; and there is no doubt but every ... compounded of the Greek virms the penultimate syllable is always long , and must have the accent , as Stratonicus ...
... according to our own analogy , with the accent on the antepenultimate syllable ; and there is no doubt but every ... compounded of the Greek virms the penultimate syllable is always long , and must have the accent , as Stratonicus ...
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mate is short , and the accent is on the antepenultimate ; as Macedonicus , Sardonicus , Britannicus , & c . See ANDRONICUS . 31. Thus we see many of these proper names are of dubious accentuation ; and the authorities which may be ...
mate is short , and the accent is on the antepenultimate ; as Macedonicus , Sardonicus , Britannicus , & c . See ANDRONICUS . 31. Thus we see many of these proper names are of dubious accentuation ; and the authorities which may be ...
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| Title | A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names: In which the Words are Accented and Divided Into Syllables Exactly as They Ought to be Pronounced, According to Rules Drawn from Analogy and the Best Usage : to which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew ... |
| Author | John Walker |
| Publisher | authors, 1804 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 15 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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