| Show from hoir hoim noir to talk yil pil ERRORS CORRECTED concluded FALSE anunciation rao has the accent on the tho first syllable be careful not to say miB chieu au the follow ing ng words are arc often wrongly accented place the he accent on the syllables printed in bold face ac acceptable acceptable capt ble empyrean em py re fre an blur sinn tain aln on ous beel lie be el ze bub compromised COM cem prom brwn inchoate in cho ate tte aias alas las ins sacred lac sac red tred red like tu a a like ah nh ho lio rl r zen zon pompe rompe pom rom pe 1 ZO zoo 0 iok log 1 ical cal to log like con connol nol noi lodge lof j jn n dl di ca ture bi MI derrigo tem po re in dle die e nou dig like in inventory ven to ory o ry bijj has VIA hag tise tiie ment ne nes pite tite itte ite like it vla ain aln incel ance liia ilia s phe pire su nu per pet pc flu fla ous ou dils bilt cel cei la ny con clin tra tr ry pen in su sn lar formidable for mid able an tip oden odem cathedral ca ua th the dral sar da na napa pa lus lm ac accessory ces ce ory sory JS pl PIS co pl pal ar Is I ton toe to ra r ey ca C mei mel o pird irrefragable irre fra ga ble lyceum ly ce cc um urn in dai pil pu ta ble bie characterized char ac ter ler iridis indis in iti dis soia BUIU BU su IU la ble corm corn bat ants antii P e r ernp to rl ly subaltern sub altern con grat rat u ia la to ry impetus im pe lus I ia con tro keri kert 1 ble ule hel bel ena e na liy ily me ne al As A si l du diff l ty ge o laet met rl cal cil com pil plat saut baut 11 1 I read his ad ver pey tibe tise ment in the times Jut authority hority preponderate in favor of and custom in favor of accenting the third phird syllable we ve say advertisement ad ver tise hse ment you may pronounce it either way according to your choice ve havea ven the generally acknowledged edged pronunciation nun nuh nuncia clation tion of indisputable and indissoluble but must enter our protest against that bel be ding iding of tiie the organs of speech to the etymology of words which such a pronunciation require requires ease base of utterance should be one of the fundamental principles of pronunciation let the words bend lend to the vocal organs aud and not the vocal organs to tile the words it is much easier to say ine ini in disputable dinu ta ble bie than in disputable dis pu ta ble aud and indis in dis soluble zol sol oz u ble bie thap thanin indissoluble in dis ii so lu ble bic covetous should not be pronounced cas cos et but cor cov et ef us Dj early dearly beloved brethren beloved be lov ed in thi case but when placed after the nonn noun it is is pronounced in tim two syllables as nelly kelly was beloved be loved by all who knew her the great valley of the thi mississippi is very fertile the last syllable of fenile rhymes with pill and not with mile ile lie is lom ion however in exile geneie senile reconcile and camomile the last syllables of which rhyme with mile mlle exaggerate nothing and be careful not to sound pound the syllables alfr ay ger to rhyme thyme w with ih da dagger gy e r ej ci fry jrr ae is the right pronunciation allow us to suggest that you should pronounce the syllable sug any iu in this word to ril III rhyme Y irle tire with mug and the syllable gest yest like jest never pronounce the word jud sud jest is a very barbarous var bar ba ia rous pronunciation I 1 the pilgrims Progress 1 2 progress res ress and not pro bess loss M ess esa ile ire wa was not drowne ed but drowned mrs airs peterson if i matron matton cf the establishment 1 natron matron tron not mat ron ran thi national fedin fe ein eln or patriotism is 3 a very rational sentiment ya xa tion teon al alpa atha pa triot ariot ism and ra al 41 it is a common fault to add a gratuitous r to words ending with a vowel such as emmer emme r louisar juli r and to make draw law saw flaw with all others of the same class clas rhyme with war to omit tile the r in such words as corks forks curtains morsel etc in the word perhaps when they conscientiously pronounce the h i or to convert it into the sound of a y v lien it come comes between two vowel as in the tiie name 11 artict harriet aud and in the words superior interior etc frequent ly pronounced aaa yet supe su pe in le te hor bor etc air aar ashton is very particular and singularly regular in his habits aid you should be par tic li lar ly careful not to omit the tha u in the tore fore foregoing oin oln t 11 italicized words strength should not he pronounced the word di d tamand t q a moad mand has three syllables syllable granary is generelly pronounced so as a to rhyme with tannery but we prefer to aronou pronounce nce it as if written graiff ery cry cr erv y authentic Autho rales dlee diff differ ir i r observe that there is a g in the word phys ghys physiognomy lor and always sound it nom om i na tive I 1 ia a word of four syllables it is if neither either nanna tive five nor nom a tive it if you yon bouget get nothing ele get aa an education and do not pronounce et git sit the word attacked attacked bas ims only two ca in it do not call an unmarried man a bacheldor bac heldar bachelor is a sufficiently disagreeable designation design leisure should not raymo wilh measure pronounce lei ki as ice lee is s the yellow part of an egg pronounce it as it is written it was formerly spelled yolk and pronounced yoke yoki gather should rhyme with lather drought properly pronounced rhymes with sprout tour should be pronounced so as to rhyme with poor it is often wrongly pronounced mower tower websters dictionary a ry not dix diz on a ry as it is frequently pronoun pronounced CAd horace greeley Is editor of the tribune trib une and not try bune bling obliged ia is not properly f iee lee be careful not to omit the first r rin fin in partridge observe ye also that hat parsley is s not pley fley pronounce bonnet as it is spelled and aud not bun net district is frequently pronounced de estrict by those who ought to know better cupola is sometimes wrongly pronoun pronounced leti itil cu palo geneale genealogy y and mineralogy observe that the thira thir syllable in in these word words s is al at and not ol 01 catch should be pronounced so as to rhyme rhyma with tapestry is 19 not pronounced tape ea ce try b but u t tap is pie phe is itry the words of some persons persona have no corners tile the consonants glide one into tile the other and arid in many aw y of the he words get attached together as a as a nour dour afterward boat upset and before wad time taul paul in or see bee yow tow low far off the shore was so we found ourselves adrift etc ate A neat speaker would say an hour lour four afterward and before we had time to judge what was our from the oltre mitre or to haul in the canyas canvas the boat upset and aud then finding ourselves ouia oura selves ives adrift etc THE COCKNEY DIALECT the london or cockney dialect prevails pre valia vaila fx cx ten ter in the united states especially in our commercial cities we have even that most offensive peculiarity the interchange of the u w and the c v ox a miss ir often talks rails on the battery they eat cat jinelar ici negar on their weal meal veal the follow following ng dialo dialogue bue eue is said to have p passed aped ap ased ed b a citizen and ilij li servant villiam I 1 vanla vanta my vig witch viz vi bir fir irs irl vy IVY the he vite vig in 1113 booden vi vig box I 1 ore last to the westry 1 jross gln hare aare scarce but I 1 ave ave aye some very fine ones ast ait borne orne madge for skirmish and to for to 0 o crowd are sometimes heard iu in new now boik alo al o for obstreperous and mar war gent yent ser set mont and for margin sermon and ard vermin the cockney adds the sound of t to a great many words in which it is not properly found a sost dost ard alid closter for close anti anil closer dinst for since and for once he ile sometimes makes an unnecessary syllable as beast es for beasts and post es for posts places the accent on the wrong syllable as character char ac ter for character char ciar ac ter and contrary con tra ra ry for contrary con confounds words of similar sound or toru torn u sine ugine successfully for tor successively contagious for contiguous argufy for signify conquest for lor concourse refuge for refuse aggravate for irritate etc the cockney and his amer e can 1 n cou con cousins 8 i ris a ulso also Is 0 uce use the vother for the other and no for or so for at ai how for arian for hig his rii lil for 01 to for to ourn tor for our li cause why for why nik niR belt geIf for fur for ruined seed for saw Mul MuM claner for knowel for knew attached Att acted for attacked comedo corned for chitue A few while lor for a little fits fit for fought while lit tor for lighted fetch a walk for take a went for gone pone walk for to rm ruber for to remind bowhers sow Now bers hers for nowhere gone dedd dead for dead Some something thInk for something thia this h re for this ibis can us for can we that there for ht they also say 11 1 I don t know nothing bothin y R about bo it t it after the form of the french je ne sais pas there is is parry gwynne sa sas r a vicious mode mude of iha final s of a wod word and sometimes the life final c when wilen preceded and followed by a vowel with the fi sl st letter of the next nest word ord if that letter happen to he n y in such a manner to produce the sound of sa sh or of in usual as A nisie voun veune mail mui what mikeli mi kesi you lag laugh lj if he lie offend sh voit v dont spek to him bim y A ash 1 I h you plese se art jush yet apt 1 6 we alwa alwais s passi ussa assA voir house in in monig lo 10 rail call on kissh yates ane lives near yard and arid so on fr through all the possibilities possibility biliti of sueh such a combination this is decided cockneyism having its ili parallel in it nothing except tiie tile bicken enslid h of f it the sons of abla Abia hain and alid to adopt it ip in c conversation is certainly lot biot ot speaking like a C a THE yankee DIALECT the yankee allots or 1 lots upon some pe avire asire or profit which A aich he hp calculates is in store for him carries on full chisel has nas great goings on to hum sometimes flares up and arid gets mad angov fatig rv alli aim is ugly baa biu bid lemper emperee emp ered fd has pretty considerable consid frable spunk punk is cute in ili making curious notions and is geuer gener ily fly clever obliging smart spry und and tight cioe cloe in ili rii pecuniary mattered matter matte rel sj he readily gets the hang of things and the way lie he goes ahead is a caution anyhow you can fix it theres no two ways about it ile he says I 1 I 1 fuess guess when hn he means I 1 I 1 think uses the wore word attoul awful in the sense of ugly and nery very great ary for either back and forth tor back anit and jor forward eard ward blows up his help instead of acol sc ling them swaps jack knives and horses is seldom green enough to get into a fix generally goes the whole ayure aud and holds on till the cows come home but occasionally his enterprises fizzle out and arid he ia is obliged to fork over the dimes and back out or be smashed up he puts up handy houses and raises raises likely bly bilys and booty girls some of whom knekow leow leom to milk a ccok cco ceo e know how to milk a cowl cow THE NEW sew YORK DIALECT the new now yorker dickers bar barters tere with the people of all countries and receives the words as wet weli welt as the wares of all nation ile he takes great pleasure iea lea ure into processions professions process lons ions and shows patronizes humbugs hum bum bugs bugg and while he pulls the wool over his neighbors eyes begs cl you will not let lef on mention it A ile he does not talk like tile like the he yankee does dees bu but some times mutilates the english langu language oce oZe the worst kind lind sayin or comin coin iiii goin whitin etc elci and ani when he has nothing more to say he dri dries drees up becomes silent when at loggerheads logger io ger yer leads heads with his bis rolen reign bor lie he sometimes tacks backs b d doen down cades caves in or flunks junks out and fails falls in business and becomes bankrupt by bursting up he persists ip calling an omnibus a stage thinks boston fi lotions notions not much worth and when he jostles hays says apologetically apologue tle tie ally aily 1 I did not gafar to do it i intends to do doity iti the ne vv yorker is emphatically a jast fast man raw and when a likes to ruu run with the ma is fire engine and dont mind mini getting his clothes trussed puss rd ot or getting into a muss mus himself TIM WESTE WESTERN M DrAL lCT the tile western man pulls up stakes and emigrates e inia t to new diggings blazs trees marks the them to indicate the ilie trail squats on tire public land takes up a quarter section f soon a clear trig in y by deadening gardlin gir dlin the tho trees treet and y grotti ro w s i bread breadstuff stuffs he libei to go to log loy frol rolling lings and to listen to stump speeches and arid in lu extreme cases advocates I 1 lynch laus law he will call you stranger stran gerand gerani and at thel iame lame timp limp very familiarly ask what might your name del dei be bel I 1 and I 1 where do you ou hail bail from I 1 the true western maii man knows the value of bottom lands but bill is is always ready to sell smil out his hi betterments ter ments improvements improvement j and make tracks fur a i new location I 1 he hl con iders bim him elf eif smart but some bome things I 1 arp arc above his bend and la in spite of his ins grit ho be flunks ks out ret retires rel retiree tires lires he is no mor green than the yankee though he lives in in the back backwoods moods woods bilt but sometimes like his hid dog barks up the wrong tree THE soel SOUTHERN illi 1711 erat ERIT DIALECT the Sou southerner thorner does dees nothing g like the yankee or the new yorker does doea but sap say with the latter that he h will tak the balance when he means the remainder and uses will inthe in ahe place of shall and shall iu in the tire plase place of will like the frenchman who fell into the Th thames aines alnes ile liv makes a nover powerful fu I 1 crap cra era of corn and aright a smart chance a I 1 large arge quantify of potatoes and dud and reckons that there la is a heap of possums ainone the simmon persimmon trees near nean the brunch brunch fb rrok do dont for do tio not sun up for sunrise and why not sun aunut up as vell well as sim sun domn down tote f 9 carry plunder for luggage rock for stone done gone for ruined and anti used to could for could for foy merly are current ihms iima in some portions of oti the south youth siene sime southerners give agne the found sound of or ai ai in in fair to ca ea in such as appear and pronounce fear to so as to rhone rhune with air they also albo call 1 i I 1 card beard keah rd and arid car kear vulgarisms MS AND SLANG carefully avo d barg u ing vulgar ana and an unmeaning words and phrae find anti lans ihns ians as you don dont t say so angue oner ocer head and ears cars kick up tip wall walk into ac etc 1 ain mr air bowery and another gent were with me I 1 we mu mut mul t cliss this detestable contraction wili tile the vulgarisms ms it is is ofin met in rood I 1 company always say a it gentleman pant pants should be put ili in the same sauie category say ady pants panta I 1 loons th thine thing called pants panta in certain were never neter made lor lur gentlemen hut inn gents gent j to U w t ii helmes heimes imes the following are a few of the current vulgar ullar ims ams i ms of lle ile lie the dd addi i better llor nor that for batter hatter b ater elver eiver for cover rover than that gai gal rr fr girl giri I 1 chaunt for change lit I 1 r nn on fair f r met ruet with j my cl th discommode sur fur or hucom S Sparrow gras grap rass tor for mode I 1 j lalit laid thir th ir tr heads aili alii ler lar Is not I 1 firmon fr f r con cited ilami for has lynt lint I 1 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