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[97] This word is comht init three, _yu'ne-un_, the sound of _y_ consonant is heard in it but once Worcester's notation is ”_y=un'yun_” The long sound of _u_ is _yu_; hence Walker calls the letter, when thus sounded, a ”seht to be accustomed to speak loud, and to pronounce all possible sounds and articulations, even those of such foreign languages as they will be obliged to learn; for ale has its particular sounds which we pronounce with difficulty, if we have not been early accustoreatest number of sounds in their speech, learn the es, since they know their articulations by having e”--_Spurzheim, on Education_, p 159
[99] If it be adh of their own to form a very feeble syllable, it will prove only that there are these exceptions to an ieneral rule If the name of _Haydn_ rhymes with _; but it is no part of the English language The obscure sound of which I speak, is sometimes improperly confounded with that of short _u_; thus a recent writer, who professes great skill in respect to such e is that of the vowel _u_, as in the word _urn_, or as the diphthong _ea_ in the word _earth_, for which we have no character Writers have made various efforts to express it, as in _earth, berth, mirth, worth, turf_, in which all the vowels are indiscriminately used in turn [Fist] _This defect has led_ to the absurdthe vowel after the consonants, instead of between them, when a word _ter, _Bible, pure, centre, circle_, instead of _Bibel, puer, center, cirkel_”--_Gardiner's Music of Nature_, p 498 ”It would be a great step towards perfection to spell our words as they are pronounced!”--_Ibid_, p
499 How often do the reforularities of which they coue is twenty-eight, 9 Vowels and 19 Consonants _H_ is no letter, but merely a mark of aspiration”--_Jones's Prosodial Gram before his Dict_, p 14
”The nuue is twenty-eight, and one pure aspiration _h_,in all twenty-nine”--_Bolles's Octavo Dict_, Introd, p 9
”The nue is twenty-six; but the nuht”--_Coht elelish alphabet, and to represent those eleht letters There is, then, a deficiency in our alphabet of twelve letters--and he who shall supply this ireatest benefactors of the human race”--_Ib_, p 19 ”Our alphabet is both redundant and defective _C, q_, and _z_, are respectively represented by _k_ or _s, k_, and _ks_, or _gz_; and the re twenty-three letters are employed to represent _forty-one_ elementary sounds”--_Wells's School Gram_, 1st Ed, p 36
”The simple sounds were in no wise to be reckoned of any certain number: by the first men they were determined to no more than ten, as spine suppose; as others, fifteen or twenty; it is however certain that eneral never exceed _twenty_ simple sounds; and of these only five are reckoned strictly such”--_Bicknell's Grammar_, Part ii, p 4
[101] ”When these sounds are openly pronounced, they produce the falish dramatic writers, was often expressed by _I_”--_Walker_ We still hear it so aar; as, ”_I, I_, sir, presently!” for ”_Ay, ay_, sir, presently!” Shakspeare wrote,
”To sleepe, perchance to dreame; _I_, there's the rub”
--_Bucke's Classical Gram_, p 143
[102] Walker pronounces _yew_ and _you_ precisely alike, ”_yoo_;” but, certainly, _ew_ is not coh some make it so: thus Gardiner, in his scheme of the vowels, says, ”_ew_ equals _oo_, as in _new, noo_”--_Music of Nature_, p 483 _Noo_ for _new_, is a _vulgarism_, to my ear--G BROWN
[103] ”As harmony is an inherent property of sound, the ear should he first called to the attention of _sih, in reality, all are composed _of three_, so nicely blended as to _appear_ but as one”--_Gardiner's Music of Nature_, p 8 ”Every sound is a ht is composed of three prismatic colours”--_Ib_, p 387
[104] The titulary name of the sacred volume is ”The Holy Bible” The word _Scripture_ or _Scriptures_ is a _cos contained in this inestiuished by a capital; but, in other works, it seeeneral to write it so, by way of eminence
[105] ”Benedictus es Doate_ ”O Eternel! Dieu d'Israel, notre pere, tu es beni de tout teaetos ei Kyrie ho theos Israel ho pataer haeint_
[106] Where the word ”_See_” accoenerally understand that the citation, whether right or wrong in regard to grammar, is not in all respects _exactly_ as it will be found in the place referred to Cases of this kind, however, will occur but seldo a feill be sufficiently obvious
Brevity is indispensable; and soht search long for half a dozen exaned violation Wherever an error isand reference are to be expected in the Key
[107] ”Et irritaverunt ascendentes in ate, folio, Psal_ cv, 7 This, I think, should have been ”Mare Rubrum,” with two capitals--G BROWN
[108] The printers, from the manner in which they place their types before them, call the small letters ”_lower-case letters_,” or ”_letters of the lower case_”
[109] I iular number, and not plural ”Ero ate_ ”[Greek: Pou hae dikae sou, thanate; pou to kentron sou, aidae;]”--_Septuagint, ibid_
[110] It is hoped that not many persons will be so much puzzled as are Dr
Latham and Professor Fowler, about the application of this rule In their recent works on The English Language, these gentlemen say, ”In certain words of more than one syllable, _it is difficult to say_ to which syllable the intervening Consonant belongs For instance, _does_ the _v_ in _river_ and the _v_ in _fever_ belong to the first or to the second syllable? Are the words to be divided thus, _ri-ver, fe-ver_? or thus, _riv-er_, _fev-er_?”--_Fowler's E Gram_, 1850, --85; _Latham's Hand-Book_, p 95
Now I suppose it plain, that, by the rule given above, _fever_ is to be divided in the former way, and _river_ in the latter; thus, _fe-ver_, _riv-er_ But this paragraph of Latham's or Fowler's is written, not to diserammarian's business to confound his readers with fictitious dileraically associated in one question, and so solecistically spoken of by the singular verb ”_does_,”
one belongs to the former syllable, and the other, to the latter; nor do I discover that ”it is difficult to say” this, or to be well assured that it is right What an aduist to _steal_ fro [words into] syllables, are not only _arbitrary_ but false and absurd They contradict the very definition of a syllable given by the authors themselvesA syllable in pronunciation is an _indivisible_ thing; and strange as it may appear, what is _indivisible_ in utterance is _divided_ in writing: when the very purpose of dividing words into syllables in writing, is to lead the learner to a just pronunciation”--_Webster's Improved Gram_, p 156; _Philosophical Gram_, 221
[112] This word, like _distich_ and _monostich_, is from the Greek _stichos_, a verse; and is improperly spelled by Walker with a final _k_
It should be _hemistich_, with the accent on the first syllable See _Webster, Scott, Perry, Worcester_, and others
[113] According to Aristotle, the co of thereat importance to the sense For he will have the parts of a compound noun, or of a compound verb, to be, like other syllables, destitute of any distinct signification in the ritten separately See his definitions of the parts of speech, in his _Poetics_, Chapter 20th of the Greek; or Goulston's Version in Latin, Chapter 12th