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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1775. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the last syllable of lovely, is only the short sound of e, and the id in try is the fame as i. So that there remain only 9 simple sounds or vowels, which I shall presently enumerate. There are in our tongue 28 simple sounds, whereof 19 are consonants, and 9 vowels. The consonants are, bdfgklmnp r s t v z * th th sh zh ng. The vowels are, ] aaaeooeiu. The last three are never sounded alone nor finish a syllable, so that it is necessary to perceive their sounds distinctly that a consonant should follow them in the same syllable, as in the words bet, fit, cub. * th has two sounds, one in the word. thin, the other in then. To distinguish them the former sound will be always marked by a cerilla. . J I * 3 - 3' % As in the words hall hat hate here note prove bet 11 fit cub. Of Of the consonants the last five are marked! by two letters each, and therefore have been considered by our grammarians as compound sounds, though in reality they are as simple as any of the rest. But the truth is, the Roman language was without these sounds, consequently they had no letters iri their alphabet to mark them. The found of eth or the Greek 6 indeed they had ft adopted together with some words from that language, such as theatrum, theologia DEGREES &c.; but not having the power to introduce the Greek letter into their alphabet, they fell upon the expedient of marking it by a junction of their h or mark of aspira* tion with a t, and this expedient we have adopted from them in marking three of those sounds of th as in the word thin; tta as in then, and sli, as in shall. But we have as yet given no peculiar mark to the 4th found, ezh, being sometimes represented sen ted by a single z, as in azure; sometimes by an f, as in osier. The last found ng, which is perhaps peculiar to the English ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153947152
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153947153
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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