 | American Philosophical Society - 1860 - 468 pages
...food. The short Bound of i in bit seldom occurs." — Win. Ellis, Polynesian Researches. 579. T/ie unwritten Polynesian languages have perhaps more resemblance...elephant,' because they resemble in German and French. 582. We do not object to writing words syllabically, if the correct syllables are used — if gu in... | |
 | 1869 - 472 pages
...palaeotype. He says, in several passages of his chap, xvi., here for convenience thrown together : " Orthoepists blind themselves to the genius and tendencies...elephant,' because they resemble in German and French (p. 122). . . Every English word of three or more syllables requires the vowel (a, y, z'),1 or a syllable... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1869 - 184 pages
...palaeotype. He says, in several passages of his chap, xvi., here for convenience thrown together: " Orthoepists blind themselves to the genius and tendencies...child learning to read from divided syllables, who 1 Analytic Orthography ; an Investigation of the Sounds of the Voice, and their Alphabetic Notation... | |
 | 1875 - 474 pages
...palaeotype. He says, in several passages of his chap, xvi., here for convenience thrown together: " Orthoepists blind themselves to the genius and tendencies...elephant,' because they resemble in German and French (p. 122). . . Every English word of three or more syllables requires the vowel (a, y, *'),' or a syllable... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 pages
...heavily critical of the orthoepists of the earlier period. In America, Samuel Haldeman commented that orthoepists 'blind themselves to the genius and tendencies...the child learning to read from divided syllables' (Haldeman 1860: 122; cf. Ellis 1874: 1187). In Britain, Ellis was adamant that their pronouncements... | |
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... followed the pronunciation there given, it must be considered an independent and extremely minute account of his own pronunciation. He has himself kindly revised the proof of its present transcription into palaeotype. He says, in several passages... 