 Mr, Webb quotes from p. 51. University, further information, as follows : " When I was a boy at a country school in Nelson Co., Va,, about 1820, we used the word a-bis'-sil-fa, with accents on the second and last syllables, and were taught that it came...  Further Notes on the Names of the Letters - Page 159by Edward Stevens Sheldon - 1893 - 17 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1894 - 1204 pages
...country school in Nelson County, Va., about 1820, we used the word a-bis-sil-fa with accents on tho second and last syllables, and were taught that it came from abbreviating the sentence 'A by itself'A.' I also heard, but rarely, the vowel e nsed in a similar way." This practice, including tho... | |
 | A. R. Marsh, Edward Stevens Sheldon, John Matthews Manly, Kuno Francke, Raymond L. Weeks, W. H. Carruth - English language - 1893 - 246 pages
...When I was a boy at a country school in Nelson Co., Va., about 1820, we used the word a-bis'-sil-fá, with accents on the second and last syllables, and...1777." The name a-bisself-a, with an accent on the i and not on the e, has also been mentioned to me by Professor JM Manly, of Brown University, who remembered... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 1178 pages
...Wisconsin. It was time: "When I was a boy at a country school in Nelson Comity, Va., about 1820, we need the word a-bis-sil-fa with accents on the second and...by itself A.' I also heard, but rarely, the vowel o nsed in a similar way." This practice, including the other three vowels, obtained in middle fïnorgia,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1896 - 1182 pages
...about 1820, we used the word a-bis-sil-fa with accents on the second and last syllables, and Tentaught that it came from abbreviating the sentence 'A by itself A.' I also heard, but rarely, the vowel e nsed in a> similar way." This practice, including tho other three vowels, obtained in middle Georgia,... | |
 | 1887 - 1110 pages
..."When I was a boy at a country school in Nelson Co., Va., about 1820, we used the word а-bis'-sil-fá, with accents on the second and last syllables, and...1777." The name a-bisself-a, with an accent on the i and not on the <?, has also been mentioned to me by Professor JM Manly, of Brown University, who... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1896 - 1216 pages
...the University of Wisconsin. It watt thus : "When I was a boy at a country school in Nelson County, Va., about 1820, we used the word a-bis-sil-fa with...by itself A.' I also heard, but rarely, the vowel o used in a similar way." This practice, including the other three vowels, obtained in middle Georgia,... | |
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