 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time...pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. . SECT. ". OfQuunMy. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG or SHOUT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowlyjoined... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator* and every similar word in the language,. "-i^-/SECTION 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time...is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LOKG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time...pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 352 pages
...ajligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a fyllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LONG Or SHORT. A vowel or fyllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel; which occafions it to be flowly joined... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...the stress of the voice must be on the letter it, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. Quantity. The quantity of a syllable is that time...pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...provocation, navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the language. SECT. 2. Of Quantity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which " is occupied in pronouncing if. It is considered as LONG or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1821 - 324 pages
...navigator, propagator, alligator," and every similar word in the Ian* guage. SECTION 2. Of Quaiitity. THE quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as LON<J or SHORT. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel; which occasions it to... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 pages
...;" the terminational ; as, " Harmony, harmoniously ;" the distinctive ; as, " C6nvert, to convert." QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pro nouncing it, consideied as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on .the... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...of the voice must be oo the leite. ยป, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. UUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time, which is...pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined,... | |
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QUANTITY. The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it. It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined, in pronunciation, to the following... 
