... Murray's English Gram- mar , I read- Some substantives naturally neuter , are , by a figure of speech , converted ... Lindley Murray for his successful attempts to ren- der our language less barbarous than he found it . He was a ...
... pronunciation . That the pronunciation of ' glass ' at least was uncertain at this period is proved by reference to Walker . In the body of the Dictionary , he gives ' glass ' the same pronunciation as ' fat ' and ' fancy ' , and a ...
... Lindley Murray and Pronunciation ' , in I. Tieken - Boon van Ostade ( ed . ) , Two Hundred Years of Lindley Murray ( Munster , Germany , 1996 ) , 145–63 . 30. A. Perceval Graves and M. Rice - Wiggin , The Elementary School Manager ...
Lindley Murray. BIRKIN'S RATIONAL ENGLISH EXPOSITOR , AND GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION ; containing an ex- tensive Selection of Words , arranged on a New and Syste- matic plan , with copious and accurate definitions ; being pecu- liarly ...
... pronunciation is counterbalanced by the beauti- fully modest diffidence which he manifests in delivering his valuable opinion upon it . Respecting " the list of corrections " , from which Mr. Gould has omitted the above - mentioned gem ...
Lindley Murray. Chapter 12 . Words in which the pronunciation differs remarkably from the spelling . Chapter 13 . Words which are often pronounced very erroneously. Spelling . AISLE , A ' PRON , ...... Pronunciation . Ile . A'purn . BEAUX ...
... Murray Lindley Murray. PROSODY . PROSODY Confifts of two parts ; the former teaches the true pronunciation of words , comprising ACCENT , QUANTITY , EMPHASIS , PAUSE , and TONE ; and the latter , the laws of VERSIFICATION . ACCENT ...
... pronunciation . In the dictionary of 1828 he gives only [ gold ] as a main pronunciation , though he remarks that ... Lindley Murray . In fact the pronunciation [ ru : m ] had so much authority back of it at the end of the ...
... pronunciation ; but one may be all that without comprehending the full use of phonetics . Let me illustrate my ... Lindley Murray . Whether grammar be called a science or an art is not a very important matter . Like chemistry , it ...
... pronunciation than any other English vowel . The position of the tongue , in sounding this letter is nearly the same as in the case of y ( consonant ) , which is the common term for y , as ... Lindley Murray ( The Vowel Phonology 295.