BUT WHERE WORDS ARE SUBJECT TO DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATIONS, THE AUTHORITIES OF OUR
BEST PRONOUNCING DICTIONARIES ARE FULLY EXHIBITED, THE REASONS FOR EACH ARE
AT LARGE DISPLAYED, AND THE PREFERABLE PRONUNCIATION IS POINTED OUT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

IN WHICH,

THE SOUNDS OF LETTERS, SYLLABLES, AND WORDS ARE CRITICALLY INVESTIGĄTED AND SYSTE ·
MATICALLY ARRANGED; THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREEK AND LATIN ACCENT AND QUAN
TITY, ON THE ACCENT AND QUANTITY OF THE ENGLISH, IS THOROUGHLY EX-
AMINED AND CLEARLY DEFINED; AND THE ANALOGIES OF THE LAN-
GUAGE ARE SO FULLY SHOWN, AS TO LAY THE FOUNDATION

OF A CONSISTENT AND RATIONAL 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.

THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH

OBSERVATIONS, ETYMOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, AND GRAMMATICAL.

"Quare, si fieri potest, et verba omnia, et vox, hujus alumnum urbis oleant: `ut oratio Romana planè videatur, non civitate donata." -QUINTILIAN.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED

A KEY

TO THE CLASSICAL PRONUNCIATION OF

GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES, &C.

BY JOHN WALKER,

AUTHOR OF ELEMENTS OF ELOCUTION, RHYMING DICTIONARY kc,

STEREOTYPED BY B. AND J. COLLINS, NEW-YORK.

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NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY COLLIN'S AND HANNAY,
No. 230, Pearl-street.

1827.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE STEREOTYPE Edition

THE importance of the Stereotype art, in its application to literary works o acknowledged reputation, has been so long known, and so justly estimated by the Publick, that no additional arguments in its favour are at this period necessary, especially when adopted in works of the kind here exhibited. In both England and France, the most popular books have received this form of printing; and they are now judiciously preferred to editions printed in the ordinary manner. In our own country also, the experience of several years has given practical proof of the utility of this art; a considerable number of works being already stereolyped, and repeated editions of them having been demanded by the Publick.

The detection of various errors in the most correct editio af Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary that could be procured as a standard in thereotyping of this work, induced the Puousner to have the whole minutely examined and carefully corrected. In the course of this revision, multitudes of errors were found, particularly in the figures embodied in the volume, and which were designed to refer to the Principles of Pronunciation prefacing the Dictionary. In the present incorrect state of the various editions of Walker's Dictionary, the reader is deprived in a great measure of the use of those important Principles of Pronunciation and is often misled and confused by this great defect. It is presumed that no modern editions of Walker's Dictionary are exempt from this imputation of in correctness; as no publishers have given notice of any examination or correction in this particular. Besides those errors in the figures of reference, many others, which had accumulated by frequent republication, have been corrected in the present sters*772 ·Mæ

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