 | William Neilson - 1808 - 318 pàgines
...they require a less opening of the mouth. The poets, in latter ages, devised a rule, which prescribes that the vowel, which goes before a consonant, must be of the same class with the vowel which follows that consonant, ie both ,broad, or both small. In observing this rule, therefore, attention... | |
 | William Neilson - 1808 - 308 pàgines
...they require a less opening of the mouth. The poets, in latter ages, devised a rule, which prescribes that the vowel, which goes before a consonant, must be of the sairie class with the vowel which follows that consonant, ie both broad, or both small. In observing... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1872 - 166 pàgines
...broad vowels, . . . e and i small . . . The poets, in latter ages, devised a rule, which prescribes that the vowel which goes before a consonant, must be of the same class with that which follows that consonant, ie, both broad or both small. Neilson's Introduction to the Irish... | |
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... are called small, because they require a less opening of the mouth. The poets, in latter ages, devised a rule, which prescribes that the vowel, which goes before a consonant, must be of the same class with the vowel which follows that consonant, ie... 