Routledge's pronouncing dictionary of the English languageP Austin Nuttall 1867 |
Common terms and phrases
acid ancient animal applied Arch base bear Belonging bird body building called carry cause close cloth colour common consisting containing cover disease draw dress earth equal fall figure fire fish flower foot force fruit Full genus genus of plants give grow hair hand hard head hold horse insect iron kind land language leaves letter light lives manner mark mean measure medicine ment metal mineral move Music nature ness Noting obtained officer pass person Pertaining piece plant play Producing Relating resembling round s.pl salt ship short side soft sort sound species stone substance Tending term thing tion tree turn unite v.a. Fr v.a. Lat variety verb vessel Want wood writing
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Էջ x - It may be observed that the French language has no accent in the sense in which we employ this term. The marks called accents, that are placed over the different vowels, serve only to indicate some particular sound of these letters, and not that peculiar impulse of the voice, which characterizes an accented syllable in the English and most other European tongues. Thus...
Էջ iii - Those who have much leisure to think, will always be enlarging the stock of ideas ; and every increase of knowledge, whether real or fancied, will produce new words, or combinations of words.
Էջ x - J sounds like soft g in French, or zh in English. 18. L has usually the same sound as in English ; but when it ends a word, being preceded by i, or when U follows i, in any situation, it usually has what is called its liquid sound.
Էջ ix - ACCENT. Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them : as, in the word presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable sume, which takes the accent.
Էջ 392 - The horny substance at the ends of the fingers and toes ; the talons of birds...
Էջ 316 - A mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words.
Էջ 250 - GRAFF, graft or graft". va To insert a scion or branch of one tree into the stock of another ; to propagate...
Էջ 1 - A is an indefinite article, implying one, as a man, a tree. Before a word beginning with a vowel, or a silent h, it is, for the sake of euphony, changed into an, as an owl. A, as a prefix, is equivalent to the prepositions in or on, as asleep, afoot.
Էջ x - The French consonants, when occurring at the end of a word are generally not pronounced, unless they are immediately followed by a word beginning with a vowel; eg in content, BORDEAUX, and dents. If, however, they are followed by a mute e, or any other vowel, they must always be articulated, eg in contente, dente, &c.
Էջ x - N, when followed by a vowel, or when double, has the same sound as in English ; but when at the end of a word (not immediately followed by another word beginning with a vowel), or when followed by another consonant in the middle of a word, they have what is termed the nasal sound...