Category: Language & Communication
Transcriber's Note: Phonetic characters are represented by the following symbols: [e] = upside-down "e" = schwa [er] = italicized inverted "e" = r-colored schwa [a] = lower-case alpha [o] = open "o" (appears as upside-down "c") = open-mid back rounded vowel [ng] = "eng" charac...
The phoneticians are doing useful work in supplying an educational need. By the phonetic system any spoken language can now be learned quickly and easily, just as by the _sol-fa...
3. Chapter 3beam, beam (_of light_). bit (_horse_), bit (_piece_), bit (fr. _bite_). brace, brace. diet, diet. deck (_cover_), deck (_adorn_). deal (_various_). dram (_drink_), drachm. dron...
4. Chapter 4FAIR: Though we still speak of 'a fair complexion' the word has lost much of its old use: and the verb TO FARE has suffered; we still say 'Farewell', but scarcely 'he fares ill'...
2. Chapter 2arc, ark. arm (_limb_), arm (_weapon_). alms, arms. aunt, ant, arn't. arch (_s._), arch (_adj._). eye, ay, I. idol, idle, idyll. aisle, isle, I'll. eyelet, islet. our, hour. bar...
1. Chapter 1Transcriber's Note: Phonetic characters are represented by the following symbols: [e] = upside-down "e" = schwa [er] = italicized inverted "e" = r-colored schwa [a] = lower-case...
6. Chapter 6On this head certainly I can write nothing worth reading. Whether there is any one with so wide a knowledge of all the main different forms of English now spoken, their historic...