the mproper sounds from infancy; hence arises the difficulty in remedying the defect, for ine habit of indistinct utterance is thus early acquired and firmly established. In pronouncing words containing unaccented syllables, care should be taken to avoid a formal and fastidious prominence of sound. The two extremes which ought to be equally avoided, are, carelessness on the one hand, and extreme pre cision on the other, as if the sounds of the letters were constantly uppermost in the mind. a, obscure, as in mental. - Musical,' comical, critical, numerical, fatal, principal, original, criminal. Special, beneficial, artificial, commercial, initial; credential, reverential, essential, impartial. Ascendant, defendant, defiance, reliance, vari ance, countenance, performance. 3 Peaceable, agreeable, sociable, amiable, detestable, abominable, respectable, tolerable, valuable. a, obscure long, as in sulphate. — Abandon,* abed, ability, about, abolish, afloat, again, alarm, amaze, apart, arise, away, canal, caress, catarrh, cathedral, separate, carbonate, apostasy. ✪, obscure, as in travel.― Travel, chapel, gravel, counsel, moment, confidence, dependent, impudent, silence, anthem, eminent, settlement. 7 Goodness, boundless, sameness, plainness, laziness, bashfulness, bitterness, manliness, steadiness. e, obscure long, as in emerge. Belief, believe, benevolent, before, behold, delight, delineate, deliver, deny, denounce, prepare, precede. i, obscure, as in ruin. — Invincible, forcible, audible, illegible, feasible, sentinel, possibly. D, obscure, as in idol. Collect,10 command, commence, commission, committee, compose, comply, concern, convert, consult, convulse. 12 D, obscure long, as in obey. - Domain," colossal, cor roborate, history, rhetoric, memorable, memory, composition," compromise, melody, advocate. Potato," tobacco, motto, fellow, window, meadow, willow, billow, follow, to-morrow, sorrow. u, obscure, as in sulphur. - Awful," fearful, playful, dutiful, graceful, fearfully, beautifully. 16 u, obscure long, as in educate. Articulate, accurate, masculine, regular, particular, emulate. Pleasure, exposure, erasure, nature, feature, pres sure, leisure, imposture. y, obscure, as in truly. — Envy, lady, safety, marry ing, carrying. 1 Not music'l. 2 Not ascendunt. 8 Not peaçuble, or peac❜ble. 4 Not ubandon, nor ā'bandon. 6 Not momunt. • Not goodnis. • Not invinçuble. 10 Not căllect. 11 Not dumain. 12 Not corrŏb'rate. 16 Not artic'late. EXERCISES ON THE CONSONANT SOUNDS. In pronouncing the words in the following exercises, force and clearness of sound should be given to the consonant elements. The letters to which atten. tion is more particularly directed are printed in Italics. b, as in babe. - Bad, bag, bat, beet, bear, bought, beast, stab, ebb, tube, globe, inhabit, babble, babbler, bound, beastly, bind, binder, begin, began, beggar. ch, as in church. Chair, chat, charm, check, churn, chirp, hatch, march, switch, scorch, satchel, touching. d, as in did.- Deed, debt, mad, modest, would, should, deduce, added, wedded, dated, side, sided, deduced. f, as in fife. — Fame, feud, fanciful, proffer, črafty, enough, rough, cough, trough, laugh, laughter, fatal, fireman, ferry, futile, physic, phantom. g, as in gag.—Game, gag, plague, vague, ghost, guard, gone, jug, egg, guilt, gewgaw, guinea, give h, as in hold. Hay, hate, high, huge, hot-house, human, who, behest, hap-hazard,' upholder, offhand, childhood, nuthook, withhold, ink-horn, gig-horse, racehorse, perhaps, unhinge, unhappy. j, as in joy. -Jam, jar, jilt, gesture, genius, gentle, giant, gibbet, gypsy, edge, ledge, judge, judgment, justice, jury, June, July. k, as in kirk. Car, coil, seek, music, talk, vaccinate, flaccid, chasm, echo, choir, chorus, coquette, etiquette, epoch, architect, cucumber, conquest. 1, as in lull. Bell, lurk, isle, pale, lark, loll, lively, lovely, hail, tall, sweetly, holy, awfully. m, as in maim. - Man, morn, mound, mammon, moment, blame, hymn, dome, memory, memento. n, as in nun.-Nine, linen, nay, gnat, can, keen, noun, condign, gnaw, kneel, banner, kitchen, hyphen. ng, as in song. —King, ring, flinging, singing, anger, congress, nothing, prolong, drink, plank, monk, lynx, tinker, distinct, rankle, monkey, conquer, anchor. P, as in pipe.- Peer, pin, pool, happy, pippin, puppet, rapid, tropic, pupil, piper, creep, grope, stop, steep. r,2 (trilled,) initial, or before a vowel, as in rap. Ray, rough, raw, rend, rebel, Roman, rot, rest, room, ride, rise, rural, around, enrich. r, (untrilled,) final, or before a consonant, as in nor.— Far, our, ear, eternal, murmur, former, torpor, servant, border, adore, appear, murmuring, forbear. B, as in seal. Sin, sign, suit, dose, sinless, science, 2 transcend, psalm, scene, schism, beside, poesy, heresy. sh, as in shine.- Shade, shine, gash, rash, sash, associate, mansion, enunciation, expansion, ocean, action, caution, nation, notion, station, promotion, chevalier, champaign. as in tent. Tell, time, tune, matter, critic, debt, Thames, Thomas, receipt, indict, titter, better, chatter, tutor, taught, total. th, as in thin. Thank, thick, theory, theatre, bath, path, mouth, month, breath, ether, thankful, thoughtful, thinking, atheist, thorn. th, as in thine. This, thus, there, those, beneath, tithe, with, brethren, farthing, father, breathe, wreathe, heathen, weather, blithe, clothe, therefore. v, as in valve. Veer, vine, vivid, weave, seven, votive, revive, survive, twelve, revolve, preserve, reserve. W, as in wine. -Waft, wall, wonder, one, once, woo, wane, wormwood, weather, beware, weal, wayward, worth, worthless, wondrous, welcome. - wh, as in whit. Whale, where, when, what, why, whether, white, whiten, whipping, whisper, whist. X, x, like ks, as in tax. - Box, six, next, text, except, sexton, execute, ex'ile, exhume, complexion. X, like g, as in exalt.-Exact, example, exempt, exert, exaltation, exile'. y, as in yes.-Year, young, yawn, you, use, utility, yonder, yawl, million, poniard, rebellion, spaniel, filial, yawning, useful. Z, as in zeal.-As, was, zephyr, maze, prize, flies, daisies, praises, arise, breezes, xanthine, Xerxes. z, like zh, as in azure. - Glazier, razure, leisure, seizure, collision, occasion, persuasion, osier, vision, explosion, treasure, pleasure, roseate. Avoid omitting or slurring the h in compound words; as, hap'azard, for kap-hazard, of and for off hand. 2 The letter r, used as an initial, or before a vowel, is articulated by a forci ble till of the tongue against the upper gum. This sound should never bo prolonged. It is sometimes mispronounced thus: urray for ray; urrough, for rough. CONSONANT COMBINATIONS. Pronounce the following words distinctly and forcibly. The initial and final combinations are printed in Italics, and may also be pronounced separately. Words without connection of sense afford a better exercise in articulation than sentences. 1. Blue, block; brave, breath; draw, drift; dwell, dwarf; fly, flounce; free, fret; glen, glide; grain, growl; cleave, cleft, close; crave, crime, crust. 2. Play, plume; proud, prove; queen, quell; shriek, shrink; skill, sketch; screen, scrawl; slate, slug; smite, small; snow, snag; speak, space; sphere. 3. Splice, splash; spring, spread; squib, square; stain, still; stream, straw; threw, thrift; thwack, thwart; truce, trash; tweed, twine; wheat, when. 4. Curb, bulb; wolf, scarf, triumph, laugh; dirge; lunch, lurch; marsh, walsh; ink, jerk; desk, earl, trample; film, storm, prism, rhythm; earn, black'n, open; lisp, vamp, usurp, scalp; delve, carve. 5. Act, sift, felt, sent, learnt, sort, most, first, apt, canst, lisp'd, pump'd, work'd, thank'd, risk'd, rock'd, froth'd, heap'd, fenc'd, pitch'd, repuls'd, scath'd. 6. Wants, wilts, facts, starts, precepts, roasts; dense, once, science, else; necks, silks, inks, basks; proofs, cuffs, sylphs; tenths, truths, depths, twelfths. 7. Want'st, wilt'st, left'st, attempt'st, help'st, hop'st, dup'st, usurp'st, coff'st, laugh'st, ask'st, lurk'st, sweet'n'st, licens'd. 8. Ebb'd, fobb'd, comb'd, long'd, oblig'd, urg'd, breath'd, world, snarl'd, arm'd, whelm'd, end, open'd, heard, spar'd, liv'd, starv'd, bronz'd, buzz'd. 9. Liv'dst, prov'dst, fill'dst, learn'dst, charm'dst, long'dst, digg'dst, lov'dst, blabb’dst, dazzldst. |