Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt ounded): [1] #bry: d#, bride. The diphthongs, long and short, have the stress upon the first vowel. The second vowel is obscured, and represents approximately the sound of er in sooner, faster (= soon-uh, fast-uh). The long diphthongs (ae: is not a diphthong proper) are eo, ie, and ea. The sound of eo is approximately reproduced in mayor (= ma-uh); that of ie in the dissyllabic pronunciation of fear (= fe-uh). But ea = ae: -uh. This diphthong is hardly to be distinguished from ea in pear, bear, etc., as pronounced in the southern section of the United States (= bae-uh, pae-uh). 7. The short sounds are nothing more than the long vowels and diphthongs shortened; but the student must at once rid himself of the idea that Modern English red, for example, is the short"
