A critical pronouncing dictionary [ed. by J. Murdoch].

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Page 123 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.
Page 9 - When vowels are under the accent, the prince, and the lowest of the people in the metropolis, with very few exceptions, pronounce them in the same manner ; but the unaccented vowels in the mouth of the former have a distinct, open, and specific sound, while the latter often totally sink them, or change them into some other sound.
Page 8 - Grœcism of the schools, will be denominated respectable usage, till a certain number of the general mass of speakers have acknowledged them ; nor will a multitude of common speakers authorize any pronunciation which is reprobated by the learned and polite.
Page 177 - Hand is much used in composition for that which is manageable by the hand, as, a hand-saw ; or borne in the hand, a,-;, a hand-barrow.
Page 16 - THE pronunciation of v for w, and more frequently of w for v} among the inhabitants of London, and those not always of the lower order, is a blemish of the first magnitude.
Page 5 - The rough r is formed by jarring the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth near the fore teeth : the smooth r is a vibration of the lower part of the tongue, near the root, against the inward region of the palate, near the entrance of the throat. This letter r is that which marks the pronunciation of England, and the former that of Ireland.
Page 173 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub-street.
Page 4 - Most of the writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are written j 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.

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