The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 96
... substantive which would naturally form such an adjective . Not the gay attire of a damsel of romance , but something which by analogy may be compared , is called in Saxon bone , to be pronounced as two syllables . The rings and chains ...
... substantive which would naturally form such an adjective . Not the gay attire of a damsel of romance , but something which by analogy may be compared , is called in Saxon bone , to be pronounced as two syllables . The rings and chains ...
Pagina 126
... substantive bond . Or compare the verb to shear with the substantive share and the adjective sheer , and another substantive shire , and yet another shore , — and we see what a variety of service one consonantal frame- work may perform ...
... substantive bond . Or compare the verb to shear with the substantive share and the adjective sheer , and another substantive shire , and yet another shore , — and we see what a variety of service one consonantal frame- work may perform ...
Pagina 153
... substantive and adjective alike , and upon all occasions . The American writers are conspicuous for their disposition to reject these traces of early French influence . 155. In reading early English poets , if we wish to catch the music ...
... substantive and adjective alike , and upon all occasions . The American writers are conspicuous for their disposition to reject these traces of early French influence . 155. In reading early English poets , if we wish to catch the music ...
Pagina 155
... ( substantively ) , they merely preserve the original French pronunciation , and thereby remind us that the distinction last indicated is a pure English invention . We have many borrowed words to which we have given a domestic character ...
... ( substantively ) , they merely preserve the original French pronunciation , and thereby remind us that the distinction last indicated is a pure English invention . We have many borrowed words to which we have given a domestic character ...
Pagina 158
... substantive , as— Licence they mean when they cry Liberty . John Milton , Sonnet xii . 11 ; ed . Tonson , 1725 . 163. In the sixteenth century there appeared a fashion of writing certain words with initial sc- which before had simple s ...
... substantive , as— Licence they mean when they cry Liberty . John Milton , Sonnet xii . 11 ; ed . Tonson , 1725 . 163. In the sixteenth century there appeared a fashion of writing certain words with initial sc- which before had simple s ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat