The Progressive Speller: For Common Schools and Academies ...O. Ellsworth, 1868 - 192 pàgines |
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The Progressive Speller: For Common Schools and Academies ... Salem Town,Nelson M. Holbrook Visualització completa - 1859 |
The Progressive Speller: For Common Schools and Academies ... Salem Town,Nelson M. Holbrook Visualització completa - 1859 |
The Progressive Speller: For Common Schools and Academies ... Salem Town,Nelson M. Holbrook Visualització completa - 1859 |
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accent Adjectives Al low ançe āte bär ble ness căn çel ÇEN çent çer CHAPTER cial çious consonant Cor rupt DEFINED denotes derivative word děs DICTATION EXERCISE digraph diş eär eāte ençe eûr fōre implies LAÇE lāte LESSON letters mär māte měn ment Miş môr ness Nouns pär pěn pěnd pět plurals po şi pōr pōrt pōşe prefix pronunciation rāte ri ous Rule sión sound SPELLING sub-vocal suffix syllable tăn tāte těn țion tious tive trǎet Trans tūde tûr vēr Verbs vowel Words ending
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Pàgina 15 - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.
Pàgina 21 - This (o) is a sound midway between 6 as in not and 6 as in or. " Smart says that this medium sound is usually given to the short o when directly followed by ss, st, and th, as in cross, cost, broth ; also in gone, cough, trough, off, and some other words. To give the extreme short sound to such words is affectation : to give them the full sound of broad a is vulgar.
Pàgina 6 - The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. W and y are consonants when they begin a word or syllable ; but in every other situation they are vowels.
Pàgina 7 - ... vow.els is not sounded, is said to be impure, or improper. The pure diphthongs in English are four ; viz., oi in voice, oy in boy, ou in loud, and ow in now. Ou and ow, however, are sometimes impure diphthongs. The impure diphthongs are usually reckoned twenty-four ; viz...
Pàgina 16 - Dictionary (1828), accent is defined as "the more forcible utterance of a particular syllable of a word, by which it is distinguished from the others."^ The accented syllable...
Pàgina 15 - S is silent in isle, aisle, island, demesne, puisne, viscount, and generally at the end of French words adopted into English ; as, chamois, corps, vis-a-vis, etc.
Pàgina 14 - It is silent after r, and at the end of a syllable, preceded by a vowel, as in rhyme, ah, oh. . J has the same sound as soft g, as in jibe. J is never silent.