A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages: In Two Parts ...F.A. Brockhaus, 1870 - English language |
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abbr account Anat Arch Arith Ausdruck back Baumwolle beſ betreffend bill Bögel Bot-s cally cant Carp Chem chen cloth Com-s comp cont engl englische fich fig-s fish Fluß Fuß Gangspill gehen gehörig Geld Geog Geom Gericht gleich goods Gram groß große habend halten Hand head heit horse house III.-ness Kabeljau keit kleine Land laſſen Law-s lich machen make Mar-s Maß Math Mech money ness one's Paint Pferde plöglich prep pret Rhet Sache Schiff schlagen ſein ship Ship-b ſich sing sound Sport stone Surg syllables term used Theil Thiere tree tshur überh v. a. Law v. a. lit voll vulg Waaren Walker Walker's Wapen wilde Winde wood Worc work wort Zool
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Page xxiii - Surely in a case like this, there can be no harm in avoiding the censure of both parties by shunning the extreme that offends the taste of each; and this medium sound in the case in question, may safely be affirmed to be the one actually in use...
Page xxxvii - It is possible to preserve the pure sound of t and d in nature and verdure ; yet nothing is more certain than that they are not preserved pure by the best and most careful speakers.
Page xxix - There was a time when sovereign and comrade were always pronounced with the o as short u ; but since the former word has been the name of a current coin, the regular sound of the o has been getting into use, and bids fair to be completely established.
Page l - Johnson and John Walker. With the pronunciation greatly simplified, and on an entirely new plan: and with the addition of several thousand words.
Page xxii - Jones, however, declared it to be "a mincing affectation ; and Mi t ford said, "No English tongue fails to express, no English ear to perceive, the difference between the sound of a in passing and in passive. No colloquial familiarity will substitute the one for the other.
Page xxiii - In time the feeling arose that [pas] was vulgar, and [pis] affected; so that refined speakers made a virtue of pronouncing an intermediate sound. We quote from Smart's edition of Walker (1838): " But Walker is a bigot ; he allows of no compromise between the broad a with which a vulgar mouth pronounces ass [a], and the sound, narrower if possible, than the a in at [a], with which an affected speaker minces the same word.
Page xxii - Fulton and Knight only, previous to Worcester mark this sound as not being so short as a in fat, as Walker and Jameson, iior so broad as the Italian a in far, as Perry, Stephen Jones,* Nares and others describe it.
Page xxxvii - Admitting the tendency, then, to these corruptions, the question occurs, is a speaker justified in yielding to this tendency ? In many words, it cannot be doubted that he must yield to it, if he wishes to escape the ridiculous effect of pronouncing as nobody else pronounces ; in other instances, he may decidedly adopt the more regular sounds ; but in the majority of cases his best course will be neither to yield decidedly to the practice, nor very carefully to avoid it, this being one of the cases...
Page xlix - Robert Nares, Elements of Orthoepy: Containing a Distinct View of the Whole Analogy of the English Language. So Far as it Relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and Quantity (London, 1784), p.
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