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... common use pronounced alike , but spelt differently 11 PART II . ANOMALOUS WORDS . Short Vowels - a , e , o , u , oo Long Vowels - ah , ā , ee , aw , ō , oo , i Exceptional Words Silent Letters ........ c , g , and s hard and soft Words ...
... common use pronounced alike , but spelt differently 11 PART II . ANOMALOUS WORDS . Short Vowels - a , e , o , u , oo Long Vowels - ah , ā , ee , aw , ō , oo , i Exceptional Words Silent Letters ........ c , g , and s hard and soft Words ...
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... Common Use ........... WORDS OF UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY . -able or eable ; -or or -our 82 83 83 84 84 85 87 89 90 -ise or -ize -tre or -ter 91 92 En or In , & c . Various General Principles to guide in selection 93 94 96 PART I. THE ...
... Common Use ........... WORDS OF UNSETTLED ORTHOGRAPHY . -able or eable ; -or or -our 82 83 83 84 84 85 87 89 90 -ise or -ize -tre or -ter 91 92 En or In , & c . Various General Principles to guide in selection 93 94 96 PART I. THE ...
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... common words , perhaps as often as in long and unusual words ; and many short words of frequent occurrence are very difficult to learners - e . g . , friend , been , said , any , knee , & c . In his report to the Committee of Council ...
... common words , perhaps as often as in long and unusual words ; and many short words of frequent occurrence are very difficult to learners - e . g . , friend , been , said , any , knee , & c . In his report to the Committee of Council ...
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... , to look intently . STAIR , a step . Why do you stare up the stairs ? Do not stare so . TALE , a story . The teacher read a tale THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 11 Words in common use pronounced alike, but spelt differently.
... , to look intently . STAIR , a step . Why do you stare up the stairs ? Do not stare so . TALE , a story . The teacher read a tale THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING . 11 Words in common use pronounced alike, but spelt differently.
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... common people . POPULOUS , full of people . Wat Tyler stirred up the populace against the government . London is the most populous city in the world . PALATE , the roof of the mouth . PALLET , a small bed . The poor man who lies on that ...
... common people . POPULOUS , full of people . Wat Tyler stirred up the populace against the government . London is the most populous city in the world . PALATE , the roof of the mouth . PALLET , a small bed . The poor man who lies on that ...
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...