The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 131
... Greek letter adopted by the Romans , and used in Saxon writing for the thin u ( like French u or German ü ) apt to be confused with i . The French call it the Greek I , ' I grec . ' Y is only a vowel all through the Saxon literature ...
... Greek letter adopted by the Romans , and used in Saxon writing for the thin u ( like French u or German ü ) apt to be confused with i . The French call it the Greek I , ' I grec . ' Y is only a vowel all through the Saxon literature ...
Pagina 133
... Greek pveμos , as we certainly do owe many of our y's to the Greek v , as in tyrant , zephyr , hydraulic , hyssop , hypocrisy , hypothesis . The consonantal value of y cannot however be traced wholly to the decay of the initial G. This ...
... Greek pveμos , as we certainly do owe many of our y's to the Greek v , as in tyrant , zephyr , hydraulic , hyssop , hypocrisy , hypothesis . The consonantal value of y cannot however be traced wholly to the decay of the initial G. This ...
Pagina 138
... , pronounced brodh , vedh . There are but three European languages , besides our own , that have a well recognised TH - Sound , the Welsh , the Spanish , and the Greek . The latter has both the sounds ; 138 I. OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET .
... , pronounced brodh , vedh . There are but three European languages , besides our own , that have a well recognised TH - Sound , the Welsh , the Spanish , and the Greek . The latter has both the sounds ; 138 I. OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET .
Pagina 139
John Earle. the Greek . The latter has both the sounds ; the Spanish gives the lisp th - sound to c before e or i ; the Welsh ... Greek letter . In Roman writing it had an undefined position as a superfluous cha- racter , a mere duplicate ...
John Earle. the Greek . The latter has both the sounds ; the Spanish gives the lisp th - sound to c before e or i ; the Welsh ... Greek letter . In Roman writing it had an undefined position as a superfluous cha- racter , a mere duplicate ...
Pagina 147
... greek nor latin letteres ; as from cano , chant ; from canon , chanon1 ; from castus , chast ; & c . - Of the Orthographie of the Britan Tongue by Alexander Hume ( Early English Text Society , 1865 ) , PP . 13 , 14 . 148. It is a point ...
... greek nor latin letteres ; as from cano , chant ; from canon , chanon1 ; from castus , chast ; & c . - Of the Orthographie of the Britan Tongue by Alexander Hume ( Early English Text Society , 1865 ) , PP . 13 , 14 . 148. It is a point ...
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