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A critical pronouncing dictionary - Page 4
by John Walker - 1824
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1807 - 1108 pages
...private, not open; inhabiting the house not wild ; not foreign, intestine. Cj" Dr. Johnson observes, that of English, as of all living tongues, there is...cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. He gives no instances of this double pronunciation ; and it is at first a little difficult to conceive...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1806 - 636 pages
...in vain. Dr. Johnson, in his Grammar, prefixed to his Dictionary, says : " Most of the " writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they ".••I •' arc written ; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English, as of...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...characters. I have therefore 'observed in what words any of the letters =*re mote. Most of the writer* ot English grammar have given long tables of words pronounced...otherwise than they are written, and seem not sufficiently (<» have considered, that of Engli«h, as of all living tongues there is a double pronunciation, one...
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Vollständige: systematische Anweisung zur richtigen Aussprache englischer Wörter

A. W. Winkelmann - English language - 1816 - 514 pages
...юоЬигф ber flebílbete ЗЛепГф ft'<6 аиф in Aíeínígíeíten Dr. Johnson observes, that of English, as of all living' tongues, there...cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. He gives no instances of. this double pronunciation ; and it is at first a little ililhcult to conceive...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1822 - 808 pages
...are in vatn. Dr. Johnson, in his Grammar prefixed to hu Dictionary, says, " Most of the writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced...considered, that, of English, as of all living tongues, tbere is a double pronunciation; one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. The cursory...
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A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper ...

John Walker - Bible - 1823 - 808 pages
...sayi . " Most of too . «79, 410, «0; antl the worrti Jmonc, Crffet, Cnxtnu, U,-M,m. '' writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are 1 written ; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English .as of all living tongues,...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1825 - 802 pages
...Johnson, in his Grammar, prefixed to his Dictionary, says : " Most <# the " * - ft * * " writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced...' there is a double pronunciation • one, cursory nnd colloquial ; the other, regular and solemn " The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain,...
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A critical pronouncing dictionary [ed. by J. Murdoch].

John Walker - 1827 - 864 pages
...are vain. Dr. Johnson, in his Grammar, prefixed to his Dictionary, says : " Most of the writers of English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are written j and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English, as of all living tongues, there is...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...

John Walker - English language - 1836 - 800 pages
...* writers of English Orainn.ni- have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than the; ai ' written ; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English as of all living tongue Hi caprcous nnovaon. ey , , ' cursory speech of those with \Chomthey happened to converse, and,...
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Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to ...

Ephraim Banks - Bank notes - 1838 - 436 pages
...Punctuation: from Crito. Doctor Johnsqn, with his usual good sense, Has remarked that " most writers of English grammar have given long tables of words pronounced...pronunciation: one cursory and colloquial; the other regnlar and solemn. The cursory pronunciation is always Tague and uncertain, being made different,...
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