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Some of the consonants, however, occasionally require to be lengthened when they occur as the terminating elements of words and syllables. The following is a table of those which most frequently require prolongation, in order to give a very distinct articulation and an emphatic or solemn expression to the words or syllables which they thus terminate.

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When two elements having the same sound come together, they cannot both be uttered without making a pause between them. Where the elements are duplicated, if they admit of it, one is prolonged as in alleviate -annihilate-immediate. If the element is a mute or necessarily short, there is a perceptible stop to be made after it, as in at-tend-ap-pear, &c. This stop is not however, to be so long as to produce affectation. To avoid this, the prolongation or pause must not be extended farther than is necessary to absolute distinctness. This may be insured in the articulation under these circumstances without pedantry.

TABLE OF CONSONANTS AND VOWELS.

THE CONSONANTS BEING PLACED FIRST.

The following consonant sounds which are all aspirates should never be prolonged beyond what is necessary to distinct articulation, ƒ, s, h, wh, th, sh, ch.

The student should exercise himself in uttering these alone, and in putting a sudden stop to the sound of each of them, the instant it has distinctly impressed the ear.

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A few specimens of the sounds heard in the junction of some of these consonants and vowels, are here given as examples of the mode of uniting all the elements in practising on this table.

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No. I. of the above sounds is effected by uniting No. 1 of the consonant table with No. 6 of the vowel: No. II. by uniting No. 3 of the consonant table with No. 11 of the vowel: No III. by uniting No. 8 of the consonant table with No. 16 of the vowel; No IV. by uniting No. 11 of the consonants with No. 10 of the vowels: No. V. by uniting consonant No. 15 with vowel No. 13:

No. VI. by uniting No. 18 with 11: No. VII. by uniting No 23 with No. 6.

In the use of the foregoing table let every consonant (except the mutes and aspirates) be considerably protracted, and then exploded without pause upon every vowel, the vowels not being protracted more than is necessary to their simple articulation. Let the mutes k, p, t, be exploded with force upon each vowel. Afterwards let each consonant (except the mutes) be shortened as much as possible and exploded upon the vowels, the vowel sounds (with the exception of the short ones) being lengthened as much as possible in their articulation. This exercise will familiarise the ear with their sounds and will shew what may be, and what ought to be done in pronouncing them.

TABLE OF VOWEL AND CONSONANT
SOUNDS.

THE VOWELS BEING PLACED BEFORE THE CONSONANTS.

Their union will make the compounds which are to furnish the exercises of this table.

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Directions for the use of the foregoing Table.

1. Let each of the long vowels be protracted as much as possible, in combination with b, d, g, l, m, n, ng, r, v, which are also to be protracted as much as possible, as awd, aid, ow'd, &c.

2. Let each of the short vowels be sounded with b, d, g, l, m, n, ng, r, v, giving the utmost prolongation to the consonants, as, a-b, a-d, o-b, e-d, &c.

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