The Elementary Spelling Book: Being an Improvement on The American Spelling Book |
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... letters in our Circular , where hosts of recommendations are published . Officially adopted for their Common Schools by the States of Maryland and California , the Cities of Brooklyn , Rochester , Charleston , & c . QUACKENBOS'S ...
... letters in our Circular , where hosts of recommendations are published . Officially adopted for their Common Schools by the States of Maryland and California , the Cities of Brooklyn , Rochester , Charleston , & c . QUACKENBOS'S ...
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... Letters will aid both teacher and pupil in this interesting exercise . As it has been found inconvenient to insert the whole Key at the top of the page , as heretofore , frequent reference to the full explanation of the pointed letters ...
... Letters will aid both teacher and pupil in this interesting exercise . As it has been found inconvenient to insert the whole Key at the top of the page , as heretofore , frequent reference to the full explanation of the pointed letters ...
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... letters or characters , representing sounds , con- stitute written language , which is presented to the eye . The letters of a language , arranged in a certain or- der , compose what is called an Alphabet . The English Alpliabet ...
... letters or characters , representing sounds , con- stitute written language , which is presented to the eye . The letters of a language , arranged in a certain or- der , compose what is called an Alphabet . The English Alpliabet ...
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... letters oo , with a horizontal mark over them , have the sound heard in the words boom , loom ; -with a curve mark , they have a shorter form of the same sound ; as , book , good ; -when u is sounded like short 00 , it has a single dot ...
... letters oo , with a horizontal mark over them , have the sound heard in the words boom , loom ; -with a curve mark , they have a shorter form of the same sound ; as , book , good ; -when u is sounded like short 00 , it has a single dot ...
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... letters used to express a single sound is called a digraph ; as , ea in head , or th in bath . The pronunciation of ... letters 8 and 2 are called also sibilants , or hissing letters . W ( as in we ) and y ( as 10 ELEMENTARY THE.
... letters used to express a single sound is called a digraph ; as , ea in head , or th in bath . The pronunciation of ... letters 8 and 2 are called also sibilants , or hissing letters . W ( as in we ) and y ( as 10 ELEMENTARY THE.
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ACCENTED al low ÂRE äte BÄR ben e bil i ty BIRD CÂRE çel çen çent çep çer cial cious çişm consonant děs digraph diphthong diş eär ed ing er eûr EXIST FALL FOOT fōre FOUR SYLLABLES găl ĞET ging HÊR işm ĭve īze LÅST lāte ling LINK log ie loŭs lōw ly ness MARÏNE mặt māte měn ment mět MOON MOVE nouns păn păr pärt pěl pěn PREY PRONOUNCED PULL quadrupeds ra phy rāte ri oŭs RULE sion sive SÓN SYLLABLES těm těn THÊRE THREE SYLLABLES tion eon tion ex tious tive trans tūre üre Verbs vowel WOLF WORDS OF FOUR WORDS OF THREE