The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 140
... guttural series . The second use is that which it has before e and i , where it sounds the same as our j , as , engine , gentle , giant , gin , ginger , change . The former is the true English G , the latter is Romanesque . The rule is ...
... guttural series . The second use is that which it has before e and i , where it sounds the same as our j , as , engine , gentle , giant , gin , ginger , change . The former is the true English G , the latter is Romanesque . The rule is ...
Pagina 141
... guttural series , because this was its old historic function , and also because it still represents the guttural - aspirate in many English words for the purposes of comparative philo- logy . Thus Latin canis is English hound ...
... guttural series , because this was its old historic function , and also because it still represents the guttural - aspirate in many English words for the purposes of comparative philo- logy . Thus Latin canis is English hound ...
Pagina 149
... ( guttural ) , is now pronounced mainly on the lips ( aspirate - labial ) . The Scotch retained the guttural much longer ; and indeed it is still audible in Scot- land . And they wrote as well as pronounced gutturally : thus , quha ...
... ( guttural ) , is now pronounced mainly on the lips ( aspirate - labial ) . The Scotch retained the guttural much longer ; and indeed it is still audible in Scot- land . And they wrote as well as pronounced gutturally : thus , quha ...
Pagina 150
... guttural soundes and symboles , he snapped me on this hand and he on that , that the doctour had mikle a doe to win me roome for a syllogisme . Then ( said I ) a labial letter can not symboliz a guttural syllab . But w is a labial ...
... guttural soundes and symboles , he snapped me on this hand and he on that , that the doctour had mikle a doe to win me roome for a syllogisme . Then ( said I ) a labial letter can not symboliz a guttural syllab . But w is a labial ...
Pagina 151
... guttural , as it is from despectare . 153. Likewise Saxon H - final has become GH , as burh burgh and borough , slôh slough , pruh trough . But the case of ugh must be noticed apart . Sometimes it sounds like simple u or w ; as in ...
... guttural , as it is from despectare . 153. Likewise Saxon H - final has become GH , as burh burgh and borough , slôh slough , pruh trough . But the case of ugh must be noticed apart . Sometimes it sounds like simple u or w ; as in ...
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