A GENERAL PRONOUNCING AND EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. STEREOTYPED. Edinburgh:--DUNCAN STEVENSON, Printer to the University. o-Go not nôrth The short quantity of a'e I ō u-â â û is marked by ȧ è ï ỏ ú CONSONANTS. c and q-pronounced like-kg-always hard, as in-go, egg s-always sharp, as in-so, ass x-always sharp, as in-ox th flat-unmarked, as in-thy th sharp-marked, as in-thigh zh-equivalent to-French j sh-equivalent to-French ch j-equivalent to-French dj ch-equivalent to-French tch ng-pronounced as in-ring renders the System obvious. PRONOUNCING AND EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES, &c. George. By G. FULTON AND G. KNIGHT. A NEW EDITION REVISED. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY STIRLING & KENNEY; AND SOLD BY G. B. WHITTAKER, AND JAMES DUNCAN, LONDON; JOHN CUMMING, Dublin. 1826. Price 4s. 6d. Bound and Lettered. A COMPARATIVE VIEW of DIFFERENT METHODS of Marking the ORTHOEPY of the English Language. 3 ↑ 2 3 1 1 2 Hwitsh' ov' the'z ka'rts mo'st kle'r-ly poi'nts the wa'. FULTON'S METHOD. With car egz-am'in; then, in can'dur, sā, Hwich ov thez chârts most cler'le poynts the wa. 1616 48-211 "IN point of Notation, Quantity, and Syllabication, Mr. FULTON's System is, in our "opinion, decidedly superior to any which has yet been adopted in Spelling-books and Dic"tionaries; for it combines the principles of Etymology and Orthoepy which were unfolded by Sheridan, with all the real improvements of Walker, reduced to a degree of SIMPLICITY ❝ and PRACTICAL FACILITY, which neither the one nor the other ever attained." " BRITISH CRITIC for September 1813. PREFACE. SUCH is the excellence of the English Language, that, even without a Dictionary to assist in the choice of words, or a Grammar to regulate construction, it was capable of displaying harmony, elegance, and copiousness, in the productions of a SHAKESPEARE, a MILTON, a SWIFT, and an ADDISON. SINCE their time, its etymology and orthography have been established, and its various shades of signification developed, by the Dictionary of Dr JOHNSON. Dr LoWTH, under the modest title of A Short Introduction to English Grammar, has furnished a most beautiful and comprehensive analysis of the language. AND, while its fitness for Composition has been thus increased, the attempts of Messrs SHERIDAN and WALKER have been no less successful in qualifying it for displaying the Graces of Elocution. By their Dictionaries, in particular, they have afforded the most effectual means of acquiring an accurate pronunciation; without which, a progress in other oratorial accomplishments must be greatly retarded, and for the want of which, even the highest of them will not compensate; and therefore these Dictionaries must be considered as valuable works. |