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... group soup tour truth i as in bite . eye bye style buy sleight guide guise guile aisle isle u as in use . you youth juice view lieu your suit sluice ewe feud ue plague vague league tongue brogue rogue Vogue cinque clique 20 THE ...
... group soup tour truth i as in bite . eye bye style buy sleight guide guise guile aisle isle u as in use . you youth juice view lieu your suit sluice ewe feud ue plague vague league tongue brogue rogue Vogue cinque clique 20 THE ...
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... groups of words are more frequently than any others mis - spelt by learners , as they are of very frequent occurrence , and the distinction of meaning is not very readily appreciated by children . A page is therefore devoted to them ...
... groups of words are more frequently than any others mis - spelt by learners , as they are of very frequent occurrence , and the distinction of meaning is not very readily appreciated by children . A page is therefore devoted to them ...
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... The following words are spelt in the two ways given below , by good authorities ; examiners generally would not consider the one or the other wrong : — WORDS OF UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY . GROUP I. - able or THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 89.
... The following words are spelt in the two ways given below , by good authorities ; examiners generally would not consider the one or the other wrong : — WORDS OF UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY . GROUP I. - able or THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 89.
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... GROUP II . - or or our . Ardor ardour Neighbor neighbour Candor candour Splendor splendour Clamor clamour Tumor tumour Color colour Valor valour Favor favour Vapor vapour Flavor flavour Vigor vigour Honor honour Fervor fervour Humor ...
... GROUP II . - or or our . Ardor ardour Neighbor neighbour Candor candour Splendor splendour Clamor clamour Tumor tumour Color colour Valor valour Favor favour Vapor vapour Flavor flavour Vigor vigour Honor honour Fervor fervour Humor ...
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... group of words , the following facts should be noticed : - There are about 400 words in the language of this termina- tion , all of which , except about 30 , now invariably omit the u . Formerly a very large number of these words had u ...
... group of words , the following facts should be noticed : - There are about 400 words in the language of this termina- tion , all of which , except about 30 , now invariably omit the u . Formerly a very large number of these words had u ...
Common terms and phrases
accented Add able affix beginning analogy ance ANOMALOUS WORDS Apostasy aversion boat bond-age cab-bage CHANGE OF LETTERS.-RULE child chough chyle chyme con-val-es-cent DIPHTHONGS DOUBLING OF LETTERS.-RULE dough drachm ence English spelling English words end ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING EXAMPLES EXERCISES final following verbs following words form the following grease guage ible IRREGULAR COMBINATIONS knead language large number last consonant LETTERS.-RULE I.-FINAL LONG VOWEL SOUNDS lyre MAIZE manner form MAX MÜLLER mode monosyllables Noah's ark OMISSION OF LETTERS.-RULE past tense phlegm pity plough practical preceded principle pronunciation race fleece redundant letters rem-in-is-cent retained ribon Rules for Spelling sentences SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS SILENT LETTERS steady ready surplice syllable beginning teacher teaching spelling tendency to throw terminations thyme tion tree try glory UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY Verbs ending vil-lage vowel is added WEEN WORDBUILDING words below add WORDS OF UNSETTLED Write the names zhun
Popular passages
Page 93 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 83 - While hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe And put it in the Hue and Cry, To name its face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use. You brought the ewe back by and by And only begged the hewer's ewer Your hands to wash in water pure Lest nice-nosed ladies not a few Should cry, on coming near you, 'Ugh'.
Page 45 - Final y preceded by a consonant is changed into i before all affixes, except those beginning with i.
Page 88 - Little strokes fell great oaks. hun'ger blan ket trin ket tinker con gress 64 65 RULES FOR SPELLING. L Final e is dropped when a syllable beginning with a vowel is added. 128. -ing. Waste not, want not. bake . . . bak'ing love . . . lov'ing place plac ing trace trac ing make mak ing like lik ing come com ing smile smil ing have hav ing 129.
Page 83 - Hugh lost hia ewe, And put it in the " Hue and Cry ;" To mark it's face's dusky hues Was all the effort he could use.
Page 55 - Words of one syllabic, and words accented on the last syllable, double the last consonant. When a syllable beginning with a vowel is added...