in mental, travel, peril, idol, forum, carry:—friar, speaker, hadir, aeton, sulphur. In many cases, however, it indicates a slight or unaccented long sound; as in sulphate, emerge, obey, duplicity, educate. The difference between the long, and obscure long sound, may be readily distinguished. In the word fate, the a is long; in the word fatality, the first a is obscure long. The case is similar with the o in the words note and notorious. In the word deliberate, when a verb, as, "I will deliberate," the a is long; when an adjective, as, " A deliberate act," it is obscure long. The common errors in the pronunciation of words of this class are, either a complete suppression of the vowel sound, or the substitution of a sound of some other vowel. This suppression or perversion of sound is much increased by the hurried manner in which many persons are accustomed to speak or read. Thus we hear reb'l for rebel ; pashunt for patient; p'rcede for precede; ev'ry for every; cuncern for concern; momunt for moment; edecate for educate; advйcate for advocate; windur for window; pop'lar or popelar for popular; awfle for awful, &c. So general is this fault, that the ear becomes accustomed to the improper sounds from infancy; hence arises the difficulty in remedying the defect, for the habit of indistinct utterance becomes 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 precision 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, variance, countenance, performance. Peaceable 3, agreeable, sociable, amiable, detestable, abominable, respectable, tolerable, valuable. a, obscure long, as in sulphate.-Abandon 4, ability, abolish, afloat, again, alarm, amaze, canal, caress, catarrh, cathedral, separate, carbonate, apostasy. e, obscure, as in travel.-Chapel5, gravel, counsel, moment, confidence, dependent, silence, settlement. Goodness, boundless, sameness, plainness, laziness, bashfulness, bitterness, manliness, steadiness. e, obscure long, as in emerge. - Beliefs, believe, benevolent, delight, deliver, denounce, prepare, precede. i, obscure, as in ruin.- Invincible, forcible, audible, illegible, feasible, sentinel, possibly. -- o, obscure, as in idol. Collect 10, commence, commission, compose, comply, concern, convert, convulse. o, obscure long, as in obey.-Domain 11, colossal, corroborate 12, history, memory, composition 13, advocate. Potato 14, tobacco, motto, fellow, window, meadow. u, obscure, as in sulphur.- Awful 15, fearful, playful, dutiful, graceful, fearfully, beautifully. u, obscure long, as in educate. - Articulate 16, accurate, masculine, regular, particular, emulate. Pleasure, exposure, nature, pressure, imposture. y, obscure, as in truly.-Lady, safety, envy, marrying. 1 Not music'l. 2 Not ascendunt. 3 Not peaçuble, or peaç'ble. 4 Not ŭbandon, or abandon. • Not momunt. • Not goodnis. 8 Not b'lief. • Not invincible. 10 Not cullect. 11 Not dumain. 12 Not corrob'rate, 14 Not potatur. 16 Not artic'late. EXERCISES ON THE CONSONANT SOUNDS. b, as in babe.-Bat, bear, bought, beast, stab, ebb, tube, babble, babbler, bound, bind, binder, begin, beggar. ch, as in church. Chair, chat, charm, check, churn, chirp. 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, crafty, enough, rough, cough, laugh, laughter, physic, phantom. g, as in gag.— Game, gag, plague, vague, ghost, guard, gone, jug, egg, guilt, gewgaw, guinea, give. h, as in hold. - Hate, high, huge, hot-house, who, behest, hap-hazard, upholder, offhand, childhood, nuthook, withhold, ink-horn, race-horse, unhappy. j, as in joy.-Jar, jilt, genius, gentle, giant, gibbet, gypsy, edge, ledge, judge, judgment, June, July. k, as in kirk. Kite, seek, talk, music, coil, vaccinate, flac cid, chasm, choir, chorus, coquette, etiquette, architect. 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, flinging, singing, anger, congress, drink, plank, lynx, tinker, distinct, monkey, conquer. p, as in pipe.-Peer, pin, pool, happy, pippin, puppet, rapid, tropic, pupil, piper, creep, grope, stop, steep. r, (trilled,) initial, or before a vowel, as in rap.- Rend, rebel, rot, rest, room, rural, around, enrich. r, (untrilled,) final, or before a consonant, as in nor.-Far, our, murmur, former, servant, border, appear, forbear. s, as in seal. Sin, sign, suit, dose, sinless, science, transcend, psalm, scene, schism, beside, poesy, heresy. S, sh, as in shine.-Shine, gash, sash, associate, mansion, enunciation, ocean, station, promotion, chevalier. t, as in tent. Time, tune, Thames, receipt, indict, titter. th, as in thin. Thank, theory, theatre, bath, month, breath, ether, thankful, thinking, atheist, thorn. th, as in thine. Thus, there, those, beneath, tithe, brethren, farthing, breathe, blithe, heathen, therefore. V, as in valve.— Vine, vivid, votive, revive, twelve, revolve. wh, as in whit. Whale, where, when, what, why, whether, white, whiten, whipping, whisper, whist. I, like ks, as in tax. Box, text, sexton, ex'ile, exhume. X, like gz, as in exalt.-Exact, exempt, exert, exile'. y, as in yes. Young, yawn, use, utility, yonder, million, poniard, rebellion, spaniel, filial, useful. z, as in zeal. — As, was, zephyr, maze, prize, flies, daisies, praises, arise, breezes, xanthine, Xerxes. z, like zh, as in azure.-Glazier, seizure, leisure, collision, occasion, osier, vision, explosion, roseate. AX INTRODUCTORY TREATISE ON ELOCUTION; WITH PRINCIPLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, ARRANGED FOR TEACHING AND PRACTICE. BY PROF. MARK BAILEY, INSTRUCTOR OF ELOCUTION IN YALE COLLEGE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by MARK BAILEY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. |