A critical pronouncing dictionary [ed. by J. Murdoch].1827 |
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adjective agreeable alter analogy animal antepenultimate båll Belonging Ben Jonson body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contract contrary COPARCENY corruption COSTIVE derived Dictionary diphthong distinct dress enclitical English Entick fåll 83 får fắt Fåte 73 favour fish followed French give Greek ground hard heard hissing horse irregular Johnson Kenrick kind lable language last syllable Latin letter liquor long sound Lumbago manner mark ment met 95-pine mute Nares neral ness noise nôt noun nounced nunciation observed Obsolete opposite orthography participle penultimate Perry person place the accent plant plural preceded pret preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme rule Scott second syllable seems sharp Sheridan short sound shortening signifies sometimes speakers spelling substance tåb termination thing tion tree triphthong tủb unaccented usage verb verbal noun vessel violent vowel vulgar word written
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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.