A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary: And Expositor of the English Language ... to which are Prefixed, Principles of English Pronunciation ...Stereotyped and printed for J. Johnson and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 - 691 páginas |
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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 dress enclitical English Entick fåll 83 får fắt Fåte 73 favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard horse instrument irregular Johnson Kenrick kind lable language last syllable letter liquor long sound Lumbago manner mark marriage mean ment mêt met 95-pine mind move 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 tủb unaccented verb vessel violence vowel vulgar written
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Página 6 - ... 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. But as harmony of termination frequently attracts the accent from the root to the branches of words, so the first and most natural law of accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any other.
Página 15 - Grammar, says it is sounded firm in the beginning of words, and more liquid in the middle and ends, as in rarer, riper ; and so in the Latin.
Página 15 - The rough r is formed by jarring the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth near the fore teeth : the smooth r is a vibration of the lower part of the tongue, near the root, against the inward region of the palate, near the entrance of the throat. This letter r is that which marks the pronunciation of England, and the former that of Ireland.
Página 3 - Л at the beginning of words where it ought to be sounded, and of sounding it, either where it is not seen, or where it ought to be sunk.
Página 8 - ... must have preceded the verb to water, as the verb to correspond must have preceded the noun correspondent ; and to pursue must claim priority to pursuit.
Página 235 - To insert a scion or branch of one tree into the stock of another ; to propagate by insertion or inoculation ; to insert into a place or body to which it did not originally belong; to join to jo nothe one thing so as to receive support from another. [Hf Nothing can be clearer than that Graff...
Página 6 - 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.