Enunciating English ProperlySts. Jude imPress, 2004 - 49 pages This monograph aims at teaching immigrants and local-accent citizens how to pronounce the written word properly, using, at times. famous speeches and humorous instances. It sets three simple rules: start each [non-first] syllable with a consonant; if there are two consonants, end the syllable with one and begin the next with the second; be sure to pronounce - but not emphasize - each word's final consonant. Exceptions to the rules are found to have their roots in ancient languages whose double consonant sounds are now written with single English letters so as to hold our alphabet to 26 letters. This is demonstrated by scrolling out ancient alphabets from 1450 BC to 1600 AD. |
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... causes some , or is it most , of us to add extra syllables . E ru dite comes out simply but er u dite first becomes er you dite and then with the y established on our tongues becomes er i you dite . E'ru'dite does not spoon a tongue ...
... causes some , or is it most , of us to add extra syllables . E ru dite comes out simply but er u dite first becomes er you dite and then with the y established on our tongues becomes er i you dite . E'ru'dite does not spoon a tongue ...
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... we proceed , we lost an ancient S - sounding consonant when the greeks eliminated the Sadhe , .consonant , which they spelled San . Haitches are a bit more complicated since in most languag- 7 H & W WHY THEY CAUSE SO MUCH TROUBLE.
... we proceed , we lost an ancient S - sounding consonant when the greeks eliminated the Sadhe , .consonant , which they spelled San . Haitches are a bit more complicated since in most languag- 7 H & W WHY THEY CAUSE SO MUCH TROUBLE.
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... cause the mouth difficulty are gristle and whistle causing the t to disappear ] . As a sort of epitaph to the enunciation of final consonants , it is just a bit out of place to point out that there ought be a short pause - a very short ...
... cause the mouth difficulty are gristle and whistle causing the t to disappear ] . As a sort of epitaph to the enunciation of final consonants , it is just a bit out of place to point out that there ought be a short pause - a very short ...
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... causes teeth to fall out , and their aqueducts were lined with lead ) . CHAPTER SUMMARY : It was just another look at some of the consonantal sounds that crept into our speech : some for the good , some for the not that good . THIS ENDS ...
... causes teeth to fall out , and their aqueducts were lined with lead ) . CHAPTER SUMMARY : It was just another look at some of the consonantal sounds that crept into our speech : some for the good , some for the not that good . THIS ENDS ...
Common terms and phrases
accent added American ancient Arabic becomes begin Brooklyn C-sound Caesar CHAPTER SUMMARY comes consonantal sounds cuneiform Digamma diphthong disconnected dite double letter doubled-consonant Egyptian EGYPTIAN Hieroglyph English alphabet enunciated Etruria Etruscans example fight final consonant final practice followed Ghain glottal stop glyphs Greek and Arabic Greek words GRID Gun'ga H sound Haitches hear Hebrew Hieroglyph HITTITES horizontals HW ZHTY invented JUDE Latin Layer learned let a woman lips listen Mesopotamia monograph mouth nant Neron never nounced pause Perhaps pick pronunciation Qoph Qoppa reader romance languages Romans Semitic language separate sequence soft Soho some'where speaker speaking spell split spoken stand-alone consonants stress syllable Syria teeth Teth third letter tongue took trademark Ugaritic UGARITIC ALPHABET UNPUBLISHABLE THOUGHTS verticals vocal vowel vowel sounds wedge shapes word consonant write
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