The Standard Speller: Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling, Also Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation, in which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are So Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association |
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accent accentual mark accordance with Rule Adjectives ending Al-ly ance aspirate bird boat bread breath cask class of words cloth compound consonant sound denote DICTATION AND WRITING DICTATION EXERCISES digraph diphthong easy sound EPES SARGENT fate fell fish following words form the plural Heed horse hundred hyphen italicized lady last syllable Latin learner letter Makron matrass ment nasal consonant nounced Nouns ending obscure sound participle preceding syllable PREFIXES pronounced pronunciation ra tion rhyme ripe Roman numerals sentence ship silent silent e silent letters sion smell sound of e sound of long sound of sh sound of short spelling spelt ta tion temper thou tial tion ex tree Unaccented Syllables unsounded verb vocal vowel VOWEL SOUNDS Webster wine Words ending WRITING AND DICTATION WRITING EXERCISES
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Page 156 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 46 - Till critics blame, and judges praise, The poet cannot claim his bays. On me when dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Page 136 - The only exceptions are, of, if, as, is, has, was, yes, his, this, us, and thus.
Page 101 - Alphabet is from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.
Page 145 - The following nouns ending in /, or fe, form the plural by changing their endings into ves : beef, beeves ; calf, calves ; elf, elves, half, halves ; knife, knives ; leaf, leaves ; life, lives ; loaf, loaves self, selves ; sheaf, sheaves ; shelf, shelves ; thief, thieves ; wife, wives ; wolf, wolves.
Page 159 - Fifty ; this letter stands for fifty, as being the half of one hundred. The Romans expressed one hundred by C., the initial of centum (the Latin for a hundred). In many manuscripts the letter C is found in this form, E. A horizontal line drawn across it gives the lower half, L, and hence the application. LX. Sixty ; fifty and ten.
Page 156 - To indicate the true character of the sentences just quoted, we have put two perpendicular lines between each pair of correlative expressions, and a single line before the first expression, in each example.
Page 154 - Can loving children e'er reprove With murmurs whom they trust and love? Creator, I would ever be A trusting, loving child to thee: As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father, thy will, not mine, be done!
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Page 156 - Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear...