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Excerpt from Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling: Containing a Full Alphabetical Vocabulary of the Language With a Preliminary Exposition of English Orthoëpy and Orthography; And Designed as a Work of Reference for General Use, and as a Text-Book in Schools
The Introduction contains a description Of the organs Of speech, preliminary definitions Of a few terms, and an account of the elementary sounds of the language, with a statement of the views in respect to these sounds, held by the most eminent orthoepists, and Of the various ways in which they are represented by the letters of the alpha bet. It also embraces, under distinct heads, a succinct treatment Of the following topics; namely, syllables, the seat and the in?uence of the accent, the causes which render words liable to be mispronounced or misspelled, compound words, prefixes, and syllabication.
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