New Orthography and Orthoepy, with Many New Exercises for PracticeL. A. Noble, 1919 - 137 pàgines |
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A'ër abbreviation accent adjective aëroplane alphabet Anglo-Saxon apostrophe articulation beautiful breath called Capital Letters combination comma Compound words consonant diacritical marks dictionary digraph diphthong drill elementary sounds English language EXERCISES express following words German guns homonyms human voice hyphen indicate John Keys last syllable Latin lawyer Let the pupil letters whose sounds long sound meaning medial monosyllables mutes Name and define nouns organs of speech Orthoepy orthography Palatals person phonetic character prangly preceded prefixes and suffixes primitive word principle Pronounce the following pronunciation proper punctuation quotation represent Saxon semi semicolon semivowels sentence short Italian short sound signifies silent letters singular soft g sounds are modified speak subvocal suffix syllable teacher Tell thistles thou thought tion trigraph triphthongs utterance verb vocal chords vocal elements voice vowel Webster's Webster's Dictionary Word-analysis write written or printed
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Pàgina 126 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
Pàgina 111 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Pàgina 110 - At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking.
Pàgina 113 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pàgina 111 - Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, An' marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, To git some on 'em office, an' some on 'em votes ; But John P.
Pàgina 57 - 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.
Pàgina 30 - Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in gifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Pàgina 55 - I must tell you that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life ; and I know a man of quality who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w.
Pàgina 93 - But an uneducated person may know, by memory, many languages, and talk them all, and yet truly know not a word of any, — not a word even of his own. An ordinarily clever and sensible seaman will be able to make his way ashore at most ports ; yet he has only to speak a sentence of any language...