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... originally written er , and it is still so pronounced . The following couplet from Chaucer exemplifies the old method of spelling such words : " But all be that he was a philosophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in coffre . " In such ...
... originally written er , and it is still so pronounced . The following couplet from Chaucer exemplifies the old method of spelling such words : " But all be that he was a philosophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in coffre . " In such ...
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... originally written , ěl . See note I , page iii . M. 49. M has one uniform sound , as in the examples given in the preceding Table . It is never silent , except in accomptant and comptroller , which are now written accountant and ...
... originally written , ěl . See note I , page iii . M. 49. M has one uniform sound , as in the examples given in the preceding Table . It is never silent , except in accomptant and comptroller , which are now written accountant and ...
Página xiv
... originally English . Dr. Johnson says that it has the sound , as its name izzard or s hard expresses , of an s uttered with closer compression of the palate by the tongue , as freeze , poze ; but Walker affirms , that if this be the ...
... originally English . Dr. Johnson says that it has the sound , as its name izzard or s hard expresses , of an s uttered with closer compression of the palate by the tongue , as freeze , poze ; but Walker affirms , that if this be the ...
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... originally the art or science called Alchimy . " CHOIR , Quire ; CHORISTER , Quirister . contrary to etymology . Quire and Quirister are antiquated , and should , perhaps , be used , when the term is COIF , Quoif . The old orthography ...
... originally the art or science called Alchimy . " CHOIR , Quire ; CHORISTER , Quirister . contrary to etymology . Quire and Quirister are antiquated , and should , perhaps , be used , when the term is COIF , Quoif . The old orthography ...
Página xliv
... originally made , namely , Delft , a town in the Netherlands . DEMESNE , Demain . These are quite dif- ferent words . The latter is a corruption of DOMAIN , which is through the French do- maine , from the Latin dominium , a seigni- ory ...
... originally made , namely , Delft , a town in the Netherlands . DEMESNE , Demain . These are quite dif- ferent words . The latter is a corruption of DOMAIN , which is through the French do- maine , from the Latin dominium , a seigni- ory ...
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Página xxxviii - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Página xxxviii - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página xvi - Most of the writers of English grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are written; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation; one cursory and colloquial; the other, regular and solemn.
Página xxxvii - Of these reformers some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model or standard which is changing while they apply it.
Página xvi - ... when I published the Plan for my Dictionary, Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state ; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely.
Página 66 - Di"git, a, three quarters of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number under ten.
Página 355 - CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon.
Página 351 - Artemis in the grotto when she and her nymphs were cooling themselves with water and bathing, was changed by her into a stag, and torn to pieces by his own hounds. 1 Anabasis, v., 3, 6-13. " Chaste and holy " calls Homer the form of Artemis, and just as she herself was so had her priestesses to be.
Página xvi - The solemn pronunciation, though by no means immutable and permanent, is yet always less remote from the orthography, and less liable to capricious innovation. They have, however, generally formed their tables according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and, concluding that the whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner, have often established the jargon of the lowest of the people as the model of speech. For pronunciation the best general rule is,...
Página xvi - English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation, one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different in different mouths by negligence, unskilfulness, or affectation.