A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (etc.)Richardson, 1822 - 574 من الصفحات |
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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging Ben Jonson body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contrary corrupt costiveness degree derived Dictionary diphthong distinct Domestick enclitical English Entick fåll 83 får fåt Fåte 73 favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard hissing horse instrument irregular Johnson Kenrick kind lable language last syllable letter liquor long sound Lumbago manner mark marriage måve mean ment mêt met 95-pine mind mute Nares nature nerally ness noise nôt noun nounced nunciation observed Obsolete orthography penultimate Perry person place the accent plant plural Pret preterit Principles pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme ridan rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan short sound shortening signifies speakers species spelling tåb termination thing tion triphthong unaccented verb verbal noun vessel violence vowel vulgar written
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الصفحة 174 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.
الصفحة 18 - As emphasis evidently points out the most significant word in a sentence ; so, where other reasons do not forbid, the accent always dwells with greatest force on that part of the word which, from its importance, the hearer has always the greatest occasion to observe : and this is necessarily the root or body of the word.
الصفحة 18 - 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...
الصفحة 5 - ... always less remote from the orthography, and less " liable to. capricious innovation. They have, however, generally formed their tables according to " the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse, and, concluding that the " whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner, have often established the jargon of the " lowest of the people as the model of speech.
الصفحة 17 - I have endeavoured to correct some of the more glaring errors of my countrymen, who, with all their faults, are still upon the whole the best pronouncers of the English language : for though the pronunciation of London is certainly erroneous in many words, yet, upon being compared with that of any other place, it is undoubtedly the best; that is, not only the best by courtesy, and because it happens to be the pronunciation of the capital, but the best by a better title — that of being more generally...
الصفحة 8 - Is it the usage of the multitude of speakers, whether good or bad ? This has never been asserted by the most sanguine abettors of its authority. Is it the usage of the studious in schools and colleges, with those of the learned professions...
الصفحة 18 - ... in which any particular man, or race of men, lived, as, the age of heroes; the space of a hundred years ; the latter part of life, old age : in...
الصفحة 89 - A space upon the surface of the earth, measured from the equator to the polar circles ; in each of which spaces the longest day is half an hour longer than in that nearer to the equator.
الصفحة 18 - The vulgar shorten this sound, and pronounce the o obscurely, and sometimes as if followed by r, as winder and feller, for window and fellow ; but this is almost too despicable for notice.
الصفحة 341 - A strong vessel in which materials are broken by being pounded with a pestle ; a short wide cannon, out of which bombs are thrown.