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..................................................37 TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ................................................................. ...h special severity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemor... ... for the most part to the proper spelling, I append a table of some common vowel sounds which no one need consult; and just to prove that I belong to ... ...e addressed its eveing hours. BOOK II. – In Scots TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ae } ae } = open A as in rare. a’ } au } = AW as in law aw } e...

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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...

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...t is descended, let the father in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How righ... ...out the same The richest librarie can be but poore. And they unblest who letters do professe And have him not: whose owne fate beates their want W... ...ers of his Quierie, was deemed fit. This man being dispatched with secret letters of credence, and instructions of an Ambassador, together with othe... ...ters of credence, and instructions of an Ambassador, together with other letters, of commendation to the Duke in favour of his particular affaires, ... ...se they had rather obeyed the literall sense, and bare words of the Kings letters, than the occasions of the affaires they had in hand. Men of under... ...explication of any worth. I am as ignorant as a childe of the phrases and vowels belonging to common things. And therefore have I atte mpted to say ...

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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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...ving of those blindest of the blind who will not see. The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration a... ...nant, he will not improbably rejoice to write it down even when it is mute or bears a different value. Here, then, we have a fresh pattern – a pattern... ...etition of the F and V , the whole matter turns, almost too obtrusively, on S and R; first S coming to the front, and then R. In the con- cluding phra... ... ear is deeper-seated and more original in man than any logical con- sideration. Few writers, indeed, are probably conscious of the length to which th... ...was only by looking back on what he had already written that the mystery was solved: the second word contained an open A, and for nearly half a page h... ...r of taste or pure reason, must be held upon the stretch to make it; and why, when it is made, it should afford us so complete a pleasure. From the ar... ...arce a faculty in man but has been exercised. We need not wonder, then, if perfect sentences are rare, and perfect pages rarer. CHAPTER II THE MORALIT...

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...s entreated not to forget that he prolonged his consonants and swallowed his vowels, that he was guilty of elisions and interpolations which were equa... ... fanatics into his confidence as to read aloud his mother’s or his mistress’s letters. To be quiet about the Southern land, not to touch her with vulga... ...culent Irish porters, the rows of shaggy backed men in strange hats, writing letters at a table inlaid with advertisements, Selah Tarrant made innumer... ...eople. He talked some time to Olive about Mount Desert, told her that in his letters he had described the company at the different hotels. He remarked... ...indows was suspended a fly blown card, with the words ‘Table Board’ affixed in letters cut (not very neatly) out of coloured paper, of graduated tints, ... ...at it was not Olive who had sent Chapter 22 159 her the ‘Transcript’ and in letters had added some private account of the doings at the convention to...

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... Peda. Quis quis, thou Consonant? 1791 Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them, 1792 or the fift if I. 1793 Peda. I ... ...his letter. 1927 Qu. Any thing like? 1928 Ros. Much in the letters, nothing in the praise. 1929 Qu. Beauteous as Incke: a good... ...fies it selfe, and turnes to grace. 2735 Qu. We haue receiu’d your Letters, full of Loue: 2736 Your Fauours, the Ambassadors of Loue. 273... ...ues 2742 In their owne fashion, like a merriment. 2743 Du. Our letters Madam, shew’d much more then iest. 2744 Lon. So did our loo...

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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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...onant? Love’ s Labours Lost Act V, Scene i 51 MOTH: The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I. HOLOFERNES: I will repea... ... my picture in his letter! PRINCESS: Any thing like? ROSALINE: Much in the letters; nothing in the praise. PRINCESS: Beauteous as ink; a good concl... ...n, Thus purifies itself and turns to grace. PRINCESS: We have received your letters full of love; Your favors, the ambassadors of love; And, in our m... ...herefore met your loves In their own fashion, like a merriment. DUMAIN: Our letters, madam, show’d much more than jest. LONGAVILLE: So did our looks...

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...le sounds, none of which I call a letter. The sound I mean may be either a vowel, a semi-vowel, or a mute. A vowel is that which without impact of ton... ...is that which without impact of tongue or lip has an audible sound. A semi-vowel, that which with such impact has an audible sound, as S and R. A mute... ... mute, that which with such impact has by itself no sound, but joined to a vowel sound becomes audible, as G and D. These are distin- guished accordin... ... on metre. A Syllable is a non-significant sound, composed of a mute and a vowel: for GR without A is a syllable, as also with A,— GRA. But the invest... ...on rho epsilon upsilon sigma}, ‘priest.’ A word is lengthened when its own vowel is exchanged for a longer one, or when a syllable is inserted. A word... ...d—of vowels that admit of lengthening—those in {alpha}. Thus the number of letters in which nouns masculine and feminine end is the same; for {psi} an...

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...EM Forster Howards End by E. M. Forster ONE MAY AS WELL BEGIN with Helen’s letters to her sis- ter. “Howards... ...- den, surely.” “Who knows!” “But, Margaret, dear—” “I’ll go for her other letters,” said Margaret. “No, I won’t, I’ll finish my breakfast. In fact, I... ...tangle that was almost a town. The station, like the scenery, like Helen’s letters, struck an indeterminate note. Into which country will it lead, Eng... ...d, and did not pretend to the contrary. She was sitting up in bed, writing letters on an invalid table that spanned her knees. A breakfast tray was on... ...se to his feet and looked out of the window, for Evie had come in with the letters, and he could meet no one’s eye. Ah yes—she had been a good woman—s... ..., Miss,’ and there we were. “Lan?” “Lan or Len. We were not nice about our vowels. Lanoline. “ “But what an extraordinary—” “I said, ‘My good Mrs. Lan...

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...t. The chief consideration for us is, what particu- lar practice of Art in letters is the best for the perusal of the Book of our common wisdom; so th... ...epted invitations to the Hall, she assisted at the reading of Willoughby’s letters to his family, and fed on dry husks of him wherein her name was not... ...achment, no longer extremely dis- turbing, to judge from the tenour of his letters; really in- comparable letters! Lady Busshe and Mrs. Mountstuart Je... ...red as a splendid young representative island lord in these 24 The Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United S... ...bsurd; where we contrasted, they were monstrous. The contrast of V ernon’s letters with Willoughby’s was just as extreme. You could hardly have taken ... ...ild. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you shall bring the vowels I and A, in verbally detached letters, into collision, that you do n...