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" The vulgar shorten this sound, and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow ; but this is almost too despicable for notice. "
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (etc.) - Page 18
by John Walker - 1822 - 574 pages
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1806 - 636 pages
...obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as -winder vaŕ. feller, for window and_/ˇ'//í/TO ; but this is almost too despicable for notice. Good...rhyming with no, so, &c. though it should seem in Ben Jonson's time, the о in this situation was almost suppressed. See his Grammar, page 1 49. 328....
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1807 - 1108 pages
...as winder andjfi/lrr, for window and /• How ; but this is almost too despicable for notice, flood speakers preserve the diphthong in this situation, and give it the full souncl of open o, rhyming with nv, <o, Sec. 323. This diphthong, in the woi-d knon'!."!g; has of lute...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1822 - 808 pages
...Uns i« almost too dt«pirnblc for notice. Good •ytakcr» orcMrve ibc aiżjbiboug in Uiu uiuauon, and give it the full sound of open o, rhyming with no, to, &c. 32». Tin- diphthong, In the word knowledge, has of lute years undergone a considerable revolution....
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A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper ...

John Walker - Bible - 1823 - 808 pages
...a aad sometimes as if followed by r as winder and feller, for window and fellow ', but this is u*» despicable for notice. Good speakers preserve the diphthong in this situation, and frrf it thr foil sound of open o, rhyming with no, so, be. aSZ. Tb» "Ifphthonj, in the word knowledge,...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1825 - 802 pages
...pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r as vrinder and feller, for tpvidmo aud fellow ', but this is almost too despicable for notice....it the full sound of open o, rhyming with no, so, &ur. 328. This diphthong, iu the word knowledge, has of late years undergone a considerable revolution....
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A critical pronouncing dictionary [ed. by J. Murdoch].

John Walker - 1827 - 864 pages
...vulgar shorten this sound, and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow ; but this is almost...though it should seem in lien Jonson's time, the o nvthis situation was almost suppressed. See his Grammar, page 149. 328. This diphthong, in the word...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language

John Walker - 1830 - 726 pages
...vulgar shorten this sound, and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow; but this is almost...give it the full sound of open o, rhyming with no, to, &c. though it should seem, in Ben Jonson's time, the o in this situation was No. 51*. 329. This...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1836 - 800 pages
...and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed bv r as winder and feller, for wind/no and fellow ; but this is almost too despicable for...it the full sound of open o, rhyming with no, so, &ur. 328. This diphthong, in the word knowledge, has of late years undergone a considerable revolu...
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A critical pronouncing dictionary. With a suppl., by E. Smith

John Walker - 1881 - 826 pages
...vulgar shorten this sound, and pronounce the о obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow ; but this is almost too despicable for notice. Good speakers pre329. This diphthong is but another form for ei, and is pronounced exactly like it When alloy is...
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Sounds and spellings

Otto Jespersen - English language - 1909 - 512 pages
...1791: The vulgar shorten ow and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow; but this is almost too despicable for notice. Comic Grammar 1840, 25: . . cockneys . . "1 sor (saw) him." "Dror (draw) it out." "Hold your jor (jaw)."...
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