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... speaking . To attain this result , the following points require particular atten- tion , on the part both of the pupil and the teacher : 1st . That the exercises be always performed with great force and clearness of articulation , so as ...
... speaking . To attain this result , the following points require particular atten- tion , on the part both of the pupil and the teacher : 1st . That the exercises be always performed with great force and clearness of articulation , so as ...
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... speak the English language , and who are guided by analogy instead of custom in this point . This sound should * The Practice of Elocution , & c . , by D. H. Smart , London , 1826. 8vo . be carefully avoided , as not belonging to ...
... speak the English language , and who are guided by analogy instead of custom in this point . This sound should * The Practice of Elocution , & c . , by D. H. Smart , London , 1826. 8vo . be carefully avoided , as not belonging to ...
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... squir - rel sec - ond pray - ers squir - rels les - son ri - ses hap - py Hold up your head when you read , and speak loud and plain . Do not say lay for lie . LESSON II . THE SUN . 1. The Sun is 26 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
... squir - rel sec - ond pray - ers squir - rels les - son ri - ses hap - py Hold up your head when you read , and speak loud and plain . Do not say lay for lie . LESSON II . THE SUN . 1. The Sun is 26 WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK .
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... speak harsh or cross words ; but they try to make each other happy . 9. The stars are very pretty , and look like a great many little spangles . They look so small , because they are so far from us . If you were near one of them , it ...
... speak harsh or cross words ; but they try to make each other happy . 9. The stars are very pretty , and look like a great many little spangles . They look so small , because they are so far from us . If you were near one of them , it ...
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... speak at meet that harsh on each may cross So slide sport words far 3 skate have make go get how were be can - not some - times fath - ers be - cause oth - er moth - ers cloud - y lit - tle play - ing ver - y moon - light span - gles ...
... speak at meet that harsh on each may cross So slide sport words far 3 skate have make go get how were be can - not some - times fath - ers be - cause oth - er moth - ers cloud - y lit - tle play - ing ver - y moon - light span - gles ...
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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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