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double accent.

bär, fall, what, prey, marïne, pin, bird, möve,

marked with a single accent, and the close sound with a

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In the following words, the sound of ng is close, and is mark

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book, dove, full, use, can, chaise, gem, 'thin, thou.

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The pronunciation of the words in the following table is marked in different ways by writers on orthoepy.

1. Natshure, jointshure, &c. with u long. This is a false notation; the words neither in England nor the United States being ever pronounced with u long.

2. Natshur, jointshur, &c. with u short. This pronunciation is common in both countries, but not the most elegant.

3. Nateyur, jointyur. This pronunciation, though a departure from the rules of the language, by prefixing the sound of y to u short, is at present fashionable, among elegant speakers. The latest writer limits this anomaly almost wholly to a few words of two syllables.

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The lungs are the organs of respiration. If any substance, except air, is inhaled and comes in contact with the lungs, we instantly cough. This cough is an effort of nature to free the lungs.

A finger signifies a taker, as does fang. We take or catch things with the fingers, and fowls and rapacious quadru peds seize other animals with their fangs.

A pang is a severe pain; anguish is violent distress,

bär, fall, whạt, prey, marïne, pin, bird, möve, Whatever is wrong is a deviation from right, or from the laws of God or man.

Anger is a tormenting passion, and so are envy and jealousy. To be doomed to suffer these passions long, would be as severe a punishment as confinement in the state's prison.

An anglicism is a peculiar mode of speech among the English.

Love is an agreeable passion, and love is sometimes stronger than death.

How happy would men be if they would always love what is right and hate what is wrong!

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knock' er

It is very useful to bread to knead it well.

The original signification of knave was a boy; but the

word now signifies a dishonest person.

book, dove, full, use, ean, chaise, gem, thin, thou.

No. 142.-CXLII.

In the following words, ch have the sound of sh, and in most of them, i has the sound of e long.

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In the following words, the vowel a of the digraph ea, has no sound, and e is short. Thus bread, earth, tread, are pronounced bred, erth, tred. It is very desirable that this useless and perplexing letter a should be rejected. Its loss would do no harm, but much good.

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bär, fall, whạt, prey, marïne, pin, bird, möve,

No. 144.-CXLIV.

In the following, g is silent.

p. stands for past tense; ppr. for participle of the present

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im preg' na ble

op pugnan cy

re pug' nant

In the following, the sound of g is resumed.

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re pug' nan cy sig' ni fy

be nig' nant be nig' ni ty

preg' nant

ma lig' ni ty

ma lig' nant

preg' nan cy
im preg' nate

sig ni fi ca' tion.

sig nif' i cant

No. 145.-CXLV.

Words in which e, i and o, before n, are mule. Those with v

annexed, are, or may be used as verbs, admitting ed for the past time, and ing for the participle.

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