A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names: In which the Words are Accented and Divided Into Syllables Exactly as They Ought to be Pronounced, According to Rules Drawn from Analogy and the Best Usage : to which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latiln Proper Names, in which the Words are Arranged According to Their Final Syllables, and Classed According to Their Accents : by which the General Analogy of Pronunciation May be Seen at One View, and the Accentuation of Each Word More Earily Remembered : Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity : with Some Probable Conjectures on the Method of Freeing Them from the Obscurity and Confusion in which They are Involved, Both by the Ancients and Moderns ...authors, 1804 - 285 страница |
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... sound as in Latin- ( Note ) xvi Importance of settling the English quantity with which we pronounce Greek and Latin proper names , and particu- larly that of the unaccented syllables · XX a 4 THE pronunciation of the learned languages ...
... sound as in Latin- ( Note ) xvi Importance of settling the English quantity with which we pronounce Greek and Latin proper names , and particu- larly that of the unaccented syllables · XX a 4 THE pronunciation of the learned languages ...
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... sound of k . Lipsius says too , that of all the European nations , the British alone pronounce the i properly ; but Middleton asserts , that of all nations they pronounce it the worst . Middleton De Lat . Liter . Pronun . Dissert ...
... sound of k . Lipsius says too , that of all the European nations , the British alone pronounce the i properly ; but Middleton asserts , that of all nations they pronounce it the worst . Middleton De Lat . Liter . Pronun . Dissert ...
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... sound of the long Greek vowel , tells us , it is a sound be tween the e and the a , and that Eustathius , who lived towards the close of the twelfth century , says , that B , B , is a sound made in imitation of the bleating of a sheep ...
... sound of the long Greek vowel , tells us , it is a sound be tween the e and the a , and that Eustathius , who lived towards the close of the twelfth century , says , that B , B , is a sound made in imitation of the bleating of a sheep ...
Страница xi
... sound of the Greek and Latin vowels , but of violating the quantity of these languages more than the people of any other nation in Europe . The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by ...
... sound of the Greek and Latin vowels , but of violating the quantity of these languages more than the people of any other nation in Europe . The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by ...
Страница xii
... sound , and its general short sound totally different . Thus the short 66 sound of e lengthened is expressed by the letter a , and the short sound of lengthened is expressed by the lettere : and with all these anomalies usual in the ...
... sound , and its general short sound totally different . Thus the short 66 sound of e lengthened is expressed by the letter a , and the short sound of lengthened is expressed by the lettere : and with all these anomalies usual in the ...
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accent and quantity Accent the Antepenultimate Accent the Penultimate accent this word accented syllable acute accent adjective adopted Ainsworth analogy ancients anglicised antepenultimate accent antepenultimate syllable chus ci-a circumflex consonants COOKE's Hesiod Critical Pronouncing Dictionary diphthong ending a syllable English pronunciation English words Forster Gouldman grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language Greek or Latin Greek word Hebrew Hesiod Holyoke human voice Idomeneus inflexion Initial Vocabulary Iphigenia Iphimedia Kir'jath Labbe last syllable LATIN ACCENT Latin languages Latin Proper Names Latin words learned Lempriere letters long quantity loud louder Milton Nemuel noun eye nounced observed penultimate accent penultimate syllable phis pi-a place the accent preceding prefixed pronun pronunciation pronunciation of Greek prosodists prosody Rule says Scotch second syllable she-a si-a singing soft speaking sounds suppose syllable Terminational Vocabulary Theog three syllables ti-a tone unaccented syllable verse vowel written
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