3. OCCASIONAL SOUNDS. Short, ǎ Ă ŭ and ĕ Italian â-Får făst German A-Wâr wăst Italian û-Rûle full Obscure ě-Hěr Initial W and Y sound as in--We ye ** The Simplicity of this KEY Gō on. u— Ūse just rûles. The short sounds of ā ēïõu, â ́Â â, are marked by ȧ è ïò ù, ă Ă ŭ. CONSONANTS. g-always hard, as in-go s-always sharp, as in-so 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-always sounded 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. BY G. FULTON AND G. KNIGHT, THE FOURTH EDITION, IMPROVED. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR PETER HILL, PRINTER TO THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH; AND GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. 1814. Price 4s. 6d. Bound and Lettered. A COMPARATIVE VIEW of DIFFERENT METHODS of Marking the ORTHOEPY of the English Language. 723818 1887, June 2, Gift of PERRY'S METHOD. With care ex-ăm'ine; then, în căn'dour, say, Ton. S. A. Green, 5 BostWhich ov these chàrts most clearly points the way. 5 46 THE Reviewers say," To this LAST Method we give, without hesitation, the preference, ON ACCOUNT OF ITS SIMPLICITY; and we think the Work before us more likely to be useful "than any other work of the kind that we have seen." BRITISH CRITIC. "The principal merit of MR FULTON'S System of Orthoepy, consists in its SIMPLICITY,—¿ property, it will be acknowledged, paramount to every other, in a book DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS." ANTIJACOBIN REVIEW. PREFACE. SUCH UCH 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 LowтH, 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. a 3 |