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... - er ho - ping ri - sing wild - est ho - peth Jan. sometimes stands for January , Feb. for Feb- ruary , not Febuary ; Mar. for March , Apl . for April . LESSON III . JAMES PRATT AND JOHN REED . 1. 28 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
... - er ho - ping ri - sing wild - est ho - peth Jan. sometimes stands for January , Feb. for Feb- ruary , not Febuary ; Mar. for March , Apl . for April . LESSON III . JAMES PRATT AND JOHN REED . 1. 28 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
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Samuel Worcester. LESSON III . JAMES PRATT AND JOHN REED . 1. A few days since , as James Pratt was on his road to a field near home , he met John Reed with a new kite in his hand . 2. " You have a nice kite there , " said James ; " pray ...
Samuel Worcester. LESSON III . JAMES PRATT AND JOHN REED . 1. A few days since , as James Pratt was on his road to a field near home , he met John Reed with a new kite in his hand . 2. " You have a nice kite there , " said James ; " pray ...
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Samuel Worcester. be held it up , and told James that it was long and strong . 6. - Now , " said James , let us go to the top of the hill and make it fly . " John liked the sport , and was glad to have James go with him . 7. When they ...
Samuel Worcester. be held it up , and told James that it was long and strong . 6. - Now , " said James , let us go to the top of the hill and make it fly . " John liked the sport , and was glad to have James go with him . 7. When they ...
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... James had hold of the cord , and he gave it a kind of jerk , and broke it . So the kite flew away , like a great bird . Do not say lenth for length , nor holt for hold . 4. " O , what have you done ? " THE KITE . គ . 31.
... James had hold of the cord , and he gave it a kind of jerk , and broke it . So the kite flew away , like a great bird . Do not say lenth for length , nor holt for hold . 4. " O , what have you done ? " THE KITE . គ . 31.
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... James told the truth , and said he was very sorry . 5. " Well , " said John , " we may as well go home now ; we can do nothing more . If we run to catch it , we shall run in vain ; if we sit down and cry , that will not bring back the ...
... James told the truth , and said he was very sorry . 5. " Well , " said John , " we may as well go home now ; we can do nothing more . If we run to catch it , we shall run in vain ; if we sit down and cry , that will not bring back the ...
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a-bout a-ny a-way articulation aunt avoided Berkeley birds brook field cake called catch Charles CHARLES BELL Clara clothes common errors consonant corn cows Cup and Ball David Dick diphthong e-nough Ellen Elocution Emily and Frances English language ev-e-ry father fault fields flax garden give glad grass grow happy heard hill Howard and Francis Hundredth hurt inflection Jane John John Holt John Reed Joseph kind labial lambs LESSON letter LIBRARY little girl live look Lord ma-ny Moon mother never Orthoepy Ostrich oth-er parents Peggy play pretty pronunciation Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester scholars seeds series of Reading sheep sister SOAP BUBBLES sometimes soon sorry sport spring teacher tell things thought told tree true sound UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ver-y vowel wagon walk Walker's notation warm wicked William wood WORCESTER'S words
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Page 9 - This vowel is not what it would, at first sight, appear to be, — a perfectly simple sound: it consists in reality of two sounds, — that which, in common pronunciation, commences the name of the letter, (a) and that which, in a prolonged utterance, is heard at its close, and which approaches to the name sound of the vowel e. A clear and just articulation of the name sound of a has regard to this complexity of its nature, and closes with a very slight and delicate approach to the sound of e, so...
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Page 74 - ... Spelling (Boston, 1830). It is a letter written by Lucy Turner, a country girl, thirteen years old, to her mother, who was spending a month in Boston at the home of Lucy's aunt, Mrs. White. This letter serves as a dreadful example to all children who, like Lucy, "never take any pains to learn to spell.
Page 9 - The grave accent, or falling inflection, (*) denotes the downward slide of voice, as heard at a period; the acute accent, or rising inflection, (') denotes the upward slide, usually heard at a comma. The application of these inflections, is not necessary to practice in articulation, and, if found embarrassing, may be omitted. The early acquisition of them, however, will save much time in future lessons ; and since the words in these exercises must all be articulated with one inflection or other,...
Page 9 - Avle ace age, aim day bail, dale fail say, pave tape hail, haze may gaze, late maid nay, vail make fame, tail pay lade, jade gay sail, fate faith daily, fade make gate, take mail sale. A, as in Far : Au, as in Launch. Marked as the ' second ' sound of a, in Walker's notation.
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