The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 96
... sound , the rhythm , the modulation , the music of the language was one entirely new . Every Englishman knows that it is comparatively easy to understand the dialects in print , but often quite impossible in conversation . The main ...
... sound , the rhythm , the modulation , the music of the language was one entirely new . Every Englishman knows that it is comparatively easy to understand the dialects in print , but often quite impossible in conversation . The main ...
Pagina 99
... sound of its name , wherever that sound was required , whether to speak of that very thing or of some other thing with like - sounding name . This is the state of Chinese writing . It is as if ( to adopt Mr. Tylor's illustration ) a ...
... sound of its name , wherever that sound was required , whether to speak of that very thing or of some other thing with like - sounding name . This is the state of Chinese writing . It is as if ( to adopt Mr. Tylor's illustration ) a ...
Pagina 104
... sounds of th , as in this , that , them , thine , from the sound of the same character in thing , thick , thread , thrive . As a means of distinguishing these two sounds the letters þ and might have been highly serviceable . But there ...
... sounds of th , as in this , that , them , thine , from the sound of the same character in thing , thick , thread , thrive . As a means of distinguishing these two sounds the letters þ and might have been highly serviceable . But there ...
Pagina 106
... sounds determine of my weale or wo . ' Here it is plain that the affirmative which we now write ay , and the noun eye , and the vowel I , are regarded as having the selfsame sound . The extreme oddity of our sound of U comes out under a ...
... sounds determine of my weale or wo . ' Here it is plain that the affirmative which we now write ay , and the noun eye , and the vowel I , are regarded as having the selfsame sound . The extreme oddity of our sound of U comes out under a ...
Pagina 107
... sound of oo . As the sound of u has developed into the ' yew ' sound , so it is quite as much in the nature of 1 to grow into a kind of ' yigh ' sound , as may sometimes be heard in affected or exaggerated pronunciation . The following ...
... sound of oo . As the sound of u has developed into the ' yew ' sound , so it is quite as much in the nature of 1 to grow into a kind of ' yigh ' sound , as may sometimes be heard in affected or exaggerated pronunciation . The following ...
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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