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...e. Our fonts of type also are small, which has frequently occasioned the necessity of using from all the fonts in the office to fill out the leading letters in the form. Of course uniformity was out of the quesion. Our office has also been much of the time without a suitable overseer or workman. But a still greater difficulty under which we have labored is the entire w...

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... were in the language; and secondly, to express these sounds by the fewest characters. The characters used are the Roman; and the sound given to the vowels are those of the languages of Southern continental Europe rather than those of the English. The materials for the following grammar have been taken almost entirely from native manuscripts or from documents printed fro...

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...ir language. Grammatical Treatises are usually divided into several parts, viz. Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Prosody. Orthography treats of letters and their formation into words. Etymology treats of words and their changes in relation to each other. Syntax teaches the rules whereby words are formed into sentences. Prosody will hardly be included in this Gramm...

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...Grammar Definition Sec. -- 1 —3 -- Part 1 Orthography -- 4 -- Hawaiian Alphabet -- 6 -- Division of Letters -- 8 —10 -- Of the Vowel Sounds -- 11 -- Of the Consonant Sounds -- 13 -- Of the Sounds of Foreign Consonants -- 14 Of Diphthongs -- 15—18 -- Of Syllables -- 19—23 -- Of Words -- 24—26 -- Formation of Words -- 27—36 -...

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...ants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ... ...bols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabet are without doubt much easier to master than hundr... ...onic structure,  Break it down into its basic sounds, and then  Match letters with the phonic elements to spell it. Forming spoken words from ... ...however, Egyptologists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound... ...ce, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambigu... ...Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vow... ...een the written and the spoken language. The Greek alphabet‘s twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese cha... ...quickly to a section with entries beginning with any one of the twenty-six letters from A to Z. Once we know our ABCs, this is a simple, easily maste...

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... to introduce him to his native country by teaching him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little d... ...n beat a man if they felt that he didn't have a girlfriend evidenced when no letters and photographs were forthcoming. Then one day he was gone and so... ...," she mumbled inaudibly to herself slurring and babbling the consonants and vowels as if she were now beginning to imitate the language of her son at... ...itate the language of her son atavistically. Her calligraphy was composed of letters that were large, circular, and loosely connected. The sentences c... ...ovement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, emphasizing the accent of each German vowel and syllable exaggeratedly. She internally debated the merit of gi... ...re was no answer. Seong Seob had a program that would instantaneously change letters into sound every time the computer dialed into a server but every... ... guarantee what he will say to her at all times but I can guarantee that the vowels and syllables he uses will be benign. They will be creative and n... ...ul cards and sentiment exchanged with one's peers. She went inside to write letters of contrived gratitude to Rita/Lily and Peggy the way her son and...

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... Ph.D., M.P., and F.R.G.S. (such titles to be set without space between the letters). But do not capitalize such phrases when spelled out : doctor ... ... and state in the date line, and the salutatory phrase at the beginning, of letters, and the signature and residence at the end of letters - or ar... ... 54. Address lines in speeches, reports, etc., and primary address lines in letters: Mr. Presidmt, Ladies and Gentlemen : Mr. John Smith, 321 Dearb... ...e, etc., to denote fractional part : Luke 4 : 31a (with a hair-space). 57. Letters used to designate unknown quantities, lines, etc., in algebraic,... ...laws. 187. The prehes " co-," "pre-," and "re-," when followed by the same vowel as that in which they terminate, Manual of Style: Punctuation 65 ... ... take a hyphen; but, as a rule, they do not when fol- lowed by a different vowel, or by a consonant: co-operation, pre-empted, re-enter; but: coequ... ...er); pro-gtm y, not: #rog-en y; pre-judice, not: pe-dice. 207. Divide on a vowel wherever practicable. In case a vowel alone forms a syllable in th... ...criticism. Exceptions are words in -able and -ible, which should carry the vowel over into the next line: read-abk, not: reada-ble; convert-ible, n... ...: pov-erty-stricken, much less: pover-ty-stricken. 209. A coalition of two vowel-sounds into one (i. e., a diphthong) should be treated as one lett...

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...Chapter 1 Should I learn Hebrew? 5 Chapter 2 The Hebrew AlephBet 15 Chapter 3 The Hebrew Vowels 20 Chapter 4 Guttural and Dagesh letters 25 Chapter 5 Syllables 28 Chapter 6 First Vocabulary, Special vowels את ו ב 31 Chapter 7 First Verse, Structure, and ה prefix 35 Chapter 8 Word Pairs and Perfect 3rd p...

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...12 Hawai‘i Host Committee -- 13 Resource List -- WELCOME LETTERS FROM HAWAI‘I’S LEADERS -- 14 Governor Neil Abercrombie -- 15 Mayor Peter Carlisle -- 16 U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicl...

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... 12 Donors to APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 13 Resource List WELCOME LETTERS FROM HAWAI‘I’S LEADERS 14 Governor Neil Abercrombie 15 Mayor Pe... .... “The kahakō is a macron, which lengthens and adds stress to the marked vowel. For example the Hawaiian word pau, depending on placement of ‘okin...

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...Definition. Suppose that two words contain respectively m and n letters, where n is greater than or equal to m. Suppose that they have exactly p letters in common counted with the possible repetitions. Then the correlation between the two words is equal to p/m. For instance, the corr...

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...sions, Lady Bertram dispatched money and baby linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote the letters. Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelve month a m... ... it go to the post?” “Yes, depend upon me it shall; it shall go with the other letters; and as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing.... ...ll possible fatigue or exertion in every particular, but that of directing her letters. The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival in A... ... governess being sick or run away, and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business; and I could hardly get a word or a look from the y... ... their family,” said Fanny, colouring for William’s sake, “they can write long letters.” “Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excell... ... for, take away his rants, and the poor Baron has nothing. What a difference a vowel makes! — if his rents were but equal to his rants! — Your cousin ...

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...le, in so far as it contains the Divine law, has always preserved the same vowel-points, the same letters, or the same words (I leave this to be prove... ...tains the Divine law, has always preserved the same vowel-points, the same letters, or the same words (I leave this to be proved by, the Massoretes an...

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...resent traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, and their due sequence is subject to... ...tance, and prefers alliteration. Their alphabet con sists of but nineteen letters, and of these, b, c, d, f, g, are found only in a few foreign words...

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...peared to me that any thinking be- ing should feel otherwise. The complete letters shed, indeed, a light on the depths to which Burns had sunk in his ... ...urt of Versailles; and the days were distinguished from each other by love-letters, meetings, tiffs, reconciliations, and expan- sions to the chosen c... ...here are no truer things said of Burns than what is to be found in his own letters. Country Don Juan as he was, he had none of that blind vanity which... ...urgh popularity was but an ovation and the affair of a day. He wrote a few letters in a high-flown, bom- bastic vein of gratitude; but in practice he ... ...he had never shared the disease. At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love verses that h... ...an equality of accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the...