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... feed street seat clear peak reed bleed meat dream bleak need breed neat cream creak leech speed lead gleam freak seek breech read steam speak leek speech beak clean streak beef cheer leak shear heath Leeth sneer deal spear sheath LONG ...
... feed street seat clear peak reed bleed meat dream bleak need breed neat cream creak leech speed lead gleam freak seek breech read steam speak leek speech beak clean streak beef cheer leak shear heath Leeth sneer deal spear sheath LONG ...
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... . FLOUR , ground corn . This is a pretty flower . Bread is made of flour . FOWL , a bird . FOUL , dirty - nasty . The air in the fowl - pen was very foul . Feed the fowls . CLOSE , to shut - up . O as in 14 THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING .
... . FLOUR , ground corn . This is a pretty flower . Bread is made of flour . FOWL , a bird . FOUL , dirty - nasty . The air in the fowl - pen was very foul . Feed the fowls . CLOSE , to shut - up . O as in 14 THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING .
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... feed , to entice . BIGHT , a bay . BOAR , a male swine . ! BRUIT , a noise . SEED , what is sown . COAT , an article of dress . DEY , a Moorish governor . FAIN , wishful , willing . FREEZE , to congeal . GAUL , a Frenchman . HOARD , a ...
... feed , to entice . BIGHT , a bay . BOAR , a male swine . ! BRUIT , a noise . SEED , what is sown . COAT , an article of dress . DEY , a Moorish governor . FAIN , wishful , willing . FREEZE , to congeal . GAUL , a Frenchman . HOARD , a ...
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... feed , rail , boat , pool , & c . , or by one vowel before and another after the consonant , as make , pole , tune , & c . The vowel e is employed to lengthen each of the other vowels . 4. The letter h is employed in conjunction with ...
... feed , rail , boat , pool , & c . , or by one vowel before and another after the consonant , as make , pole , tune , & c . The vowel e is employed to lengthen each of the other vowels . 4. The letter h is employed in conjunction with ...
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... feed speed meet shoot sweep weep lead plead 2. Many verbs ending in p , f , 1 , ss , sh , and ch , have a tendency to contract the termination ed to t ; as , tip , tipped full form . spell , spelled tipt spelt contracted . " 9 99 ...
... feed speed meet shoot sweep weep lead plead 2. Many verbs ending in p , f , 1 , ss , sh , and ch , have a tendency to contract the termination ed to t ; as , tip , tipped full form . spell , spelled tipt spelt contracted . " 9 99 ...
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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
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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...