Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced!. 45th Thousand Carefully Rev ...G.P. Putnam's sons, 1898 - 574 pagina's |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
absent accents the final accents the last accost Alnwick amber-gris analogy anglicized aniline authority Biog Century Dictionary Commonly pronounced craunch damage de-dŭ diphthong diz Wor Dutch pron English final syllable French G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS gives the last gives the second Guadalquivir Haldeman give Haldeman prefers Haldeman says i'-ther Imperial Dictionary Imperial gives Imperial says Italian Knowles says last pronunciation last syllable lexicographers prefer Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer mispronounced nounced nunciation orthoëpists Perry says places the accent preferred by Worcester prefers the second pron pronounce this word pronunciation given pronunciation of Worcester's săn second pronunciation second syllable secondary form secondary pronunciation short sound shun Smart says Spanish speakers Stor Stormonth and Haldeman Stormonth gives Stormonth says tion usage von-fōn vowel Walker says Webster says Worcester accents Worcester and Haldeman Worcester and Stormonth Worcester gives Worcester prefers Worcester says
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Pagina 42 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Pagina 517 - Be lion-mettled, proud and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.
Pagina 76 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Pagina 171 - tis in my custody. Oth. Ha! lago. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on : that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger ; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves ! Oth.
Pagina 171 - It is in the delicate but firm utterance of the unaccented vowels with correct sound that the cultured person is most surely distinguished from the uncultured.
Pagina 275 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps...
Pagina 196 - Either and neither are so often pronounced eye-ther and nigh-ther, that it is hard to say to which class they belong. Analogy, however, without hesitation, gives the diphthong the sound of long open e, rather than that of /', and rhymes them with breather, one who breathes.
Pagina 438 - This word in common usage among those who weigh heavy bodies, has contracted its double e into single /', and is pronounced as if written stilyard. This contraction is so common in compound words of this kind, as to become an idiom of pronunciation which cannot be easily counteracted without opposing the current of the language.
Pagina 47 - ... and some other words. To give the extreme short sound to such words is affectation : to give them the full sound of broad a is vulgar.