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PDFAspirate as in -------- ----- h hat wh when
SUBSTITUTES.
Substitutes are characters used to represent sounds ordinarily represented by other characters.
Table of substitutes.
Substitute for as in Substitute for as in ---------- --- ----- ---------- --- ----- a o what y i hymn e a there c s cite e a freight c k cap i e police ch sh machine i e sir ch k chaos o u son g j cage o oo to n ng rink o oo would s z rose o a corn s ah sure o u work x gz examine u oo pull gh f laugh u oo rude ph f sylph y i my qu k pique qu kw quick
FAULTS TO BE REMEDIED.
Direction.—Give to each sound, to each syllable, and to each word its full, distinct, and appropriate utterance.
For the purpose of avoiding the more common errors under this head, observe the following rules:
Rule II.—Avoid the omission of unaccented vowels.
Examples.
Incorrect Correct Incorrect Correct --------- ----------- ---------- --------- Sep’rate sep-a-rate Ev’dent ev-i-dent met-ric’l met-ric-al mem’ry mem-o-ry ’pear ap-pear ’pin-ion o-pin-ion com-p’tent com-pe-tent pr’pose pro-pose pr’cede pre-cede gran’lar gran-u-lar ’spe-cial es-pe-cial par-tic’lar par-tic-u-lar
Rule III.—Avoid sounding incorrectly the unaccented vowels.
Examples.
Incorrect Correct Incorrect Correct ---------- ----------- ------------ ------------ Sep-er-ate sep-a-rate Mem-er-ry mem-o-ry met-ric-ul met-ric-al up-pin-ion o-pin-ion up-pear ap-pear prup-ose pro-pose com-per-tent com-pe-tent gran-ny-lar gran-u-lar dum-mand de-mand par-tic-e-lar par-tic-u-lar ob-stur-nate ob-sti-nate ev-er-dent ev-i-dent
Remark I.—In correcting errors of this kind in words of more than one syllable, it is very important to avoid a fault which is the natural consequence of an effort to articulate correctly. Thus, in endeavoring to sound correctly the a in met’ric-al, the pupil is very apt to say met-ric-al’. accenting the last syllable instead of the first.
