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a-ble a-ment a-ry a-tive adjectives al-ly ance aspirate chre cial cious CLASS compound consonant sound Cooley denote dér derivatives DICTATION AND WRITING digraph diphthong double eär elementary sounds ence English er-y exceptions final following words form the plural fül i-ble i-cal i-tor i-ty Latin Lesson liquid consonant long mark makron ment nasal consonant ness nouns Nouns ending o-gy orthoëpists păr preceded PREFIXES preterits pron pronunciation ra-phy regular short ROMAN NUMERALS SARGENT'S PRONOUNCING SPELLER short mark si-ble silent silent e sion sive sound of long sound of sh sound of short spelling takes the sound tér tial tion tious tive trăn triphthong u-lar u-late u-lous u-ous unaccented syllables unmarked verbs vocal vowel vowel sound Walker Webster Worcester words ending
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Page 127 - Monosyllables ending with f, I, or s, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant; as staff, mill, pass, &c.
Page 130 - The following nouns ending in /, or fe, form the plural by changing their endings into ves : beef, beeves ; calf, calves ; elf, elves ; half, halves ; knife, knives ; leaf, leaves ; life, lives ; loaf, loaves ; self, selves ; sheaf, sheaves ; shelf, shelves ; thief, thieves ; wife, wives ; wolf, wolves.
Page 147 - G****e, for King George, Sometimes a long dash, or a succession of dots, is used instead of the stars ; as, L d M y, for Lord Murray.
Page 127 - EXCEPTIONS. — Add, burr, butt, buzz, ebb, egg, err, inn, odd. 2. -Words of one syllable ending with /, I, or s, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant ; as, stiff, full, class.
Page 150 - The sign of division is written thus, -7-, and, placed between two numbers or quantities, shows that the one on the left is to be divided by the one on the right.
Page 131 - ... individual seeds ; that of penny is pennies, when a number of individual coins is spoken of, but pence., if reference is made to an aggregate sum, or to a coin, equal in value to a certain number of pennies. § 195. (24.) The plural of the following nouns is irregularly formed; namely, child (children), foot (feet), goose (geese), louse (lice), man (men), mouse (mice), ox (oxen), tooth (teeth), woman (women). § 196. (.25.) The plural of compounds of which the word man is the final constituent...
Page 26 - ... like/, as in phantom, sylph. qu, like kw, as in queen, conquest. wh, like hw, as in what, when, awhile. When one letter of an improper diphthong, or of a triphthong, is marked, it is to be taken as representing the sound of the combination, and the letter or letters which are not marked, are to be regarded as silent, as in aim, clean, ceil, people, group, soul, journal, tow, &c.
Page 130 - Words ending in y preceded by a consonant change the y to i and add es to form the plural : as lady, ladies ; comedy, comedies.
Page 153 - Mass Massachusetts. MC . . . Member of Congress. MD . . . Doctor of Medicine.
Page 58 - In choir and chorister, the ch is almost universally pronounced like rju: (300) in ostrich, like dge, as if spelled ostridge. It is silent in schedule, schism, and yacht ; pronounced seddule, sizm, and yot.