Early English Text Society: Extra seriesN. Trübner & Company, 1869 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent according appear becomes beginning Bell bhas called century close common confused considered consonant course dər dialects difficulty diphthong distinct distinguished Dutch effect element England English examples final force French frequently German give given glide hand hear heard hence initial kind language length letters lips marked means merely miin nasal nature observed occur omitted original palate perhaps phonetic position possible practice preceding present probably produced Prof pronounced pronunciation received reference remarks represented result Scotch seems shew short simple sometimes sound speakers speech spelling stǝ syllables symbols tion tongue trill unaccented usual voice vowel words writing written zoon
Popular passages
Page 1179 - And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land ; and he began to be in want.
Page 1179 - And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Page 1180 - ... 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Page 994 - ... strongest and most powerful in the confederacy. Although they were all known as Saxons by the Roman people who touched them only on their southern border where the Saxons dwelt, and who remained ignorant of the very existence of the English or the Jutes, the three tribes bore among themselves the name of the central tribe of their league, the name of Englishmen.
Page 1201 - there is no trill, but the tongue being curled back during the progress of the vowel preceding it, the sound becomes guttural, while a slight vibration of the back part of the tongue is perceptible in the sound.
Page 1125 - When the glottis is contracted to a narrow chink, the breath in passing sets the edges of the orifice — the " vocal ligaments " — in vibration, and creates sonorous
Page 1064 - If you should happen to be of my opinion with respect to these innovations, you will use your authority in reprobating them.
Page 1059 - It is endeavoured to give the alphabet a more natural order ; beginning first with the simple sounds formed by the breath, with none or very little help of tongue, teeth, and lips, and produced chiefly in the windpipe.
Page 1060 - This mode of writing poetry would be the touchstone of bad rhymes, which the eye as well as the ear would instantly detect; as in the first couplet of this description, and even in the last, according to the common pronunciation of perform.
Page 1119 - It is produced by placing a certain portion of the tongue near the tip, but not the tip itself, against a certain part of the palate, and, after pressure, suddenly withdrawing it with a violent emission of breath. It has no <-sound in its composition, for neither the tip of the tongue nor the teeth are used in its production.