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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...to the Secretary, Mr. John Fenton, at the Offices, 20, John Street, Adelphi, W.C. THE SPELLING REFORMER, And JOURNAL of the ENGLISH SPELLING REFORM ASSOCIATION. All communication! for the Editor to be addressed to the Office, 20, John Street, Adelphi, London, W.O. Vol. I. January, i88i. No. 7. Univ'ocal English Words. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, who has bestowed the greatest possible care on his researches into English, collected from Smart's Dictionary a series of words, which he termed univ'ocal (the place of the accent is determined by the correlative word equiv'ocal, which no one calls e'qui-vo'cat), because they contain only one vowel. They are not strictly monosyllabic, because the Prince considered vocal r, I, m, n, in such words, as flare, squabWe, rhythm, ope-, not to be vowels, so that his list admits all such words. To each of these he gave the pronunciation assigned in Smart's Dictionary as the best authority he could find, not considering the observations of himself as a foreigner of any authority. But among these words are many which are obsolete, to which, therefore, no present value can be attached, those given by Smart being purely conjectural, assumed often from his own pronunciation of Latin, and, as is now known, not generally representing the sounds of the words at the times that they were in use. This list was kindly lent to me by the Prince in Dec., 1875, when I transcribed and rearranged it, and marked those words as doubtful, which were either obsolete or were unknown to me altogether, together with some words which seemed to be improperly inserted. I propose here to give the numerical results. The sounds will be represented by one of the words in each list. The numbers are those I originally obtained, and will certainly not...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130123913
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 113012391X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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