The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... Pronunciation 99 CHAPTER III . Of Interjections 121 158 CHAPTER IV . Of the Parts of Speech . · 176 CHAPTER V. Of Presentive and Symbolic Words , and of Inflections . · 193 CHAPTER VI . The Verbal Group · 224 I. Strong Verbs 2. Mixed ...
... Pronunciation 99 CHAPTER III . Of Interjections 121 158 CHAPTER IV . Of the Parts of Speech . · 176 CHAPTER V. Of Presentive and Symbolic Words , and of Inflections . · 193 CHAPTER VI . The Verbal Group · 224 I. Strong Verbs 2. Mixed ...
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... pronunciation . Which is made probable by the substitution of the ss for ch where we must suppose a French pronunciation of the ch , which is about the same as our sh sound . Thus , in the long piece presently to be quoted , we have ...
... pronunciation . Which is made probable by the substitution of the ss for ch where we must suppose a French pronunciation of the ch , which is about the same as our sh sound . Thus , in the long piece presently to be quoted , we have ...
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... pronunciation . The following extract from a ' Prologue ' by the American humourist Oliver Wendell Holmes will shew what is meant : - " The world's a stage , " as Shakspeare said , one day ; The stage a world - was what he meant to say ...
... pronunciation . The following extract from a ' Prologue ' by the American humourist Oliver Wendell Holmes will shew what is meant : - " The world's a stage , " as Shakspeare said , one day ; The stage a world - was what he meant to say ...
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... pronunciation of the noun ewe , to which in sound we prefix a y . Account for it how we may , the fact is plain ( and this is what we are now upon ) that the vowel has caught its nam- ing from certain strained and exceptional uses of it ...
... pronunciation of the noun ewe , to which in sound we prefix a y . Account for it how we may , the fact is plain ( and this is what we are now upon ) that the vowel has caught its nam- ing from certain strained and exceptional uses of it ...
Pagina 113
... pronunciation . the tendency of the Jis a character which entered our alphabet in the seven- teenth century . The sound of it came into English far earlier , by our adoption of French words that had it . Such were , jangler , jealous ...
... pronunciation . the tendency of the Jis a character which entered our alphabet in the seven- teenth century . The sound of it came into English far earlier , by our adoption of French words that had it . Such were , jangler , jealous ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew Henry VI illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observed onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader retained rhyme rhythm Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing written þæt þat