AN ADVANCED ENGLISH READER WITH THE PRONUNCIATION INDICATED BY MARKS APPLIED TO THE ORDINARY SPELLING BY W. A. CRAIGIE Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon Co-Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary I. B. HUTCHEN: EDINBURGH 1924 894 0886 PREFACE. The system of pronunciation-marks employed in this Reader is in all respects the same as that which has been explained and illustrated in my Pronunciation of English (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1917) and of which the application is more fully exhibited in English Reading Made Easy (1922). The value of this system is that on a simple basis of marks and rules it enables the foreign student of English to read texts in the ordinary spelling with perfect certainty as to the pronunciation of each word. Such a method has obvious advantages over the use of unmarked texts, with the constant necessity of referring to a dictionary for the pronunciation of unfamiliar words, or of texts in a phonetic alphabet, which entirely alter the appearance of the language to the eye and leave the student in ignorance of the ordinary written form. The specimens of prose and verse contained in these pages. are intended for those who have already made some progress in the study of English. To such as are already familiar with the elements of the language most of the contents will offer abundant material for further study, as they cover a variety of themes and on that account contain a copious store of the standard words employed in English literature. A number of the pieces were included by Charles Knight in his well-known collection 'Half-hours with the Best Authors', and the student who has access to one of the various editions of that work will find in it a ready means of testing his ability to read the same text with and without the aid afforded by the marks. 336 M808586 |