The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 112
... orthography of that period . For example , sixt thou for seest thou , or rather sehest thou , in Piers Plow- man i . 5 , is evidence that his siht sight , was gutturally pronounced . = as As the н began to be more feebly uttered , Ì12 ...
... orthography of that period . For example , sixt thou for seest thou , or rather sehest thou , in Piers Plow- man i . 5 , is evidence that his siht sight , was gutturally pronounced . = as As the н began to be more feebly uttered , Ì12 ...
Pagina 121
... orthography fixed : but perhaps the next gene- ration will detect some changes that have taken place in our time . Orthography is in fact always in the rear of pro- nunciation , and therefore there is always room for improve- ment . But ...
... orthography fixed : but perhaps the next gene- ration will detect some changes that have taken place in our time . Orthography is in fact always in the rear of pro- nunciation , and therefore there is always room for improve- ment . But ...
Pagina 122
... orthography was a modern affair , and that the spelling of our early writers was chaotic and unstudied . But this would be a great mistake . The poet of the Ormulum ( 1215 ) earnestly begs that in future copies of his work , respect may ...
... orthography was a modern affair , and that the spelling of our early writers was chaotic and unstudied . But this would be a great mistake . The poet of the Ormulum ( 1215 ) earnestly begs that in future copies of his work , respect may ...
Pagina 124
... orthography for a hundred years ; hardly less fixed than ours now is , after four centuries of printing . We must remember that the Press is a sort of dictator in ortho- graphy . If we were to judge of present English orthography by a ...
... orthography for a hundred years ; hardly less fixed than ours now is , after four centuries of printing . We must remember that the Press is a sort of dictator in ortho- graphy . If we were to judge of present English orthography by a ...
Pagina 127
... orthography whose pronunci- ation is not yet uniformly established ( in the public reading of Scripture ) , and that is the word DRAUGHT . The colloquial pronunciation is now draft , but in Dryden we find the other sound : - ' Better to ...
... orthography whose pronunci- ation is not yet uniformly established ( in the public reading of Scripture ) , and that is the word DRAUGHT . The colloquial pronunciation is now draft , but in Dryden we find the other sound : - ' Better to ...
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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