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Into Vowels and Confonants . Q. What is a Vowel ? ... A Confonant is a Letter , that cannot be founded without a Vowel ; as b without e : Therefore all Letters , except the Vowels are Confenants . Of SYLLABLE 3 . Q. What is a Syllable ?
Into Vowels and Confonants . Q. What is a Vowel ? ... A Confonant is a Letter , that cannot be founded without a Vowel ; as b without e : Therefore all Letters , except the Vowels are Confenants . Of SYLLABLE 3 . Q. What is a Syllable ?
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A. A Confonant between two Vowels , goes to the latter Syliable ; as ba - nifh . Q. What is the firft Exception to this Rule ? A. Thefe Confonants , w and x , go to the former Syllable ; as , Flow - er , ex - ile .
A. A Confonant between two Vowels , goes to the latter Syliable ; as ba - nifh . Q. What is the firft Exception to this Rule ? A. Thefe Confonants , w and x , go to the former Syllable ; as , Flow - er , ex - ile .
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Monofyllables , and Words accented upon the laft Syllable ending in a fingle Confonant , without a Diphthong foregoing , double their final Confonant when they take any of the formative Endings : and then it may be proper to put the ...
Monofyllables , and Words accented upon the laft Syllable ending in a fingle Confonant , without a Diphthong foregoing , double their final Confonant when they take any of the formative Endings : and then it may be proper to put the ...
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| Title | A New-guide to the English Tongue: In Five Parts |
| Author | Thomas Dilworth |
| Publisher | Joseph Crukshank, 1789 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 26 Mar 2015 |
| Length | 158 pages |
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