A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...: To which are Prefixed Principles of English Pronunciation ... Likewise, Rules to be Observed by the Natives of Scotland, Ireland and London, for Avoiding Their Respective Peculiarities, and Directions to Foreigners, for Acquiring a Knowledge of the Use of this Dictionary ... To which is Annexed a Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, &c |
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... language , operate with steadiness and regularity in the midst of the ficklest affectation and caprice . It can scarcely be supposed that the most experienced speaker has heard every word in the language , and the whole circle of ...
... language , operate with steadiness and regularity in the midst of the ficklest affectation and caprice . It can scarcely be supposed that the most experienced speaker has heard every word in the language , and the whole circle of ...
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... language much more than the English ; and it is scarcely to be doubted that a situation nearer to the Continent ... languages were cultivated , and the pedantry of showing an acquaintance with them became fashionable , it is not ...
... language much more than the English ; and it is scarcely to be doubted that a situation nearer to the Continent ... languages were cultivated , and the pedantry of showing an acquaintance with them became fashionable , it is not ...
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... language where the initial h is sunk , we may select these from the rest , and , without setting the pupil right when he mispronounces these , or when he pre- fixes h improperly to other words , we may make him pronounce all the words ...
... language where the initial h is sunk , we may select these from the rest , and , without setting the pupil right when he mispronounces these , or when he pre- fixes h improperly to other words , we may make him pronounce all the words ...
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... language derived from the Latin and Greek 544 The only possible case in which we can argue from the Latin quantity to the English Dissyllables from the Saxon and French languages enumerated- ibid . ibid . Causes of the prevalence of ...
... language derived from the Latin and Greek 544 The only possible case in which we can argue from the Latin quantity to the English Dissyllables from the Saxon and French languages enumerated- ibid . ibid . Causes of the prevalence of ...
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... languages , and is that to which we annex clearer ideas than to any other ; and though the short sounds of some vowels have not in our language been classed with sufficient accuracy with their parent long ones , yet this has bred but ...
... languages , and is that to which we annex clearer ideas than to any other ; and though the short sounds of some vowels have not in our language been classed with sufficient accuracy with their parent long ones , yet this has bred but ...
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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contrary corrupt costiveness derived Dictionary diphthong distinction DOMESTICK dress enclitical English Entick fåll får fåt favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard herb horse instrument Johnson Kenrick kind language last syllable Latin language letter liquor long sound manner mark Mason ment mêt pine mind môve mute Nares nature neral ness nỏ noise nôt noun nounced observed Obsolete Orthoepy orthography participle penultimate Perry person place the accent plant preposition Preter preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme ridan rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan ship short sound shortening signifies speakers species spelling termination thin thing tion triphthong unaccented v. a. To put verb verbal noun vessel vowel vulgar written
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Page 55 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 287 - Insects, which in their several changes belong to several of the before-mentioned divisions, may be considered together as one great tribe of animals. They are called insects, from a separation in the middle of their bodies, whereby they are, as it were, cut into two parts, which are joined together by a small ligature; as we see in wasps, common flies, and the like.
Page 4 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.
Page 227 - A kind of walk along the floor of a house, into which the doors of the apartments open ; the upper seats in a church ; the scats in a playhouse above the pit, in which the meaner people sit.
Page 48 - But if this letter is too forcibly pronounced in Ireland, it is often too feebly sounded in England, and particularly in London, where it is sometimes entirely sunk...
Page 4 - The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different in different mouths by negligence, unskilfulness, or affectation. The solemn pronunciation, though by no means immutable and permanent, is yet always less remote from the orthography, and less liable to capricious innovation.
Page 201 - Imagination, the power by which the mind forms to itself images and representations; an opinion bred rather by the imagination than the reason; inclination, liking; caprice, humour, whim ¡ frolick, idle scheme, vagary.
Page 186 - The investigation of a mean proportion collected from the extremities of excess and defect ; in algebra, an expression of the same quantity in two dissimilar terms, but of equal value; in astronomy, the difference between the time marked by the sun's apparent motion, and that measured by its motion. EQUATOR, ¿-kwa-tur, s. 166. A great circle, whose poles are the poles of the world, ït divides the globe into two equal parts, the northern and southern hemispheres.
Page 211 - That part of the side of a quadruped near the hinder thigh : in men, the latter part of the lower belly ; the side of any army or fleet : in fortification, that part of the bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face.
Page 255 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hiccup.