The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 107
... vowels are , Ae , Ee , Igh , Oe , Yew ; but these names , which are distinctly our own , and among the peculiarities of our language , do not in the case of any single vowel express the prevalent sound of that vowel in practical use ...
... vowels are , Ae , Ee , Igh , Oe , Yew ; but these names , which are distinctly our own , and among the peculiarities of our language , do not in the case of any single vowel express the prevalent sound of that vowel in practical use ...
Pagina 108
... vowel has been dictated by the sound which it bears in the last - mentioned list of instances . There is no apparent reason why that class of instances should have drawn to itself any such special attention , to the neglect of the ...
... vowel has been dictated by the sound which it bears in the last - mentioned list of instances . There is no apparent reason why that class of instances should have drawn to itself any such special attention , to the neglect of the ...
Pagina 109
... vowel . To account for its having acquired so inappropriate a name , we must again seek for a familiar and frequent word in which the vowel does bear this sound . And we find it in the personal pronoun I , which we might have written as ...
... vowel . To account for its having acquired so inappropriate a name , we must again seek for a familiar and frequent word in which the vowel does bear this sound . And we find it in the personal pronoun I , which we might have written as ...
Pagina 110
... vowel has caught its nam- ing from certain strained and exceptional uses of it . To so great a length have I pursued this subject of the naming of our vowels , because it is in fact a most exceptional and insular phenomenon . As a ...
... vowel has caught its nam- ing from certain strained and exceptional uses of it . To so great a length have I pursued this subject of the naming of our vowels , because it is in fact a most exceptional and insular phenomenon . As a ...
Pagina 112
... vowels , as in the familiar rule which tells us to say an before a word beginning with a vowel or a silent h . It seems almost incredible that it ever had in English the force of the German ch , or rather of the Welsh ch . Yet such was ...
... vowels , as in the familiar rule which tells us to say an before a word beginning with a vowel or a silent h . It seems almost incredible that it ever had in English the force of the German ch , or rather of the Welsh ch . Yet such was ...
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