PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY; WITH LESSONS IN PROSE AND VERSE, AND A FEW GRAMMATICAL EXERCISES. BY GEORGE FULTON, COMPILER OF A PRONOUNCING SPELLING-BOOK, EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY OLIVER & BOYD. 1826. [Price Two Shillings Bound.] TO THE NUMEROUS PUPILS, WHOM THE COMPILER, IN THE COURSE OF FORTY YEARS, HAD THE HONOUR OF INSTRUCTING IN THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, THIS SMALL TREATISE IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. Lârd, lăst- Hĕr- -ě Use just rûles. The short quantity of a ēī ō u-â â û is marked by å è ï ỏ ú—ă Ã ŭ CONSONANTS. c and q-pronounced like-k g-always hard, as in-go, egg ûus-always sharp, as in-so, ass x-always sharp, as in-ox th flat-unmarked, as in-thy th sharp-marked, as in--thigh zh-equivalent to-French j sh-equivalent to-French ch j-equivalent to-French dj ch-equivalent to-Frenchtch ng-pronounced as in-ring Initial W and Y sound as in-We Ye OW and Oy sound as in-How Hoy *The Simplicity of this KEY renders the System obvious. INTRODUCTION. THE public, and particularly the instructors of youth, are highly indebted to the writings of the late Mr John Walker. By his Rhyming Dictionary and Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, the result of indefatigable labour and research, much has been done to lay open to view the principles of the English language, both with respect to its orthography and orthoepy. But above all his other writings, this author has secured a lasting reputation by his Elements of Elocution and Rhetorical Grammar. In these works he has displayed such acquaintance with the of the human voice, and so happy a manner of elucidating and exemplifying the beautiful theory to which his genius gave birth, that the writings of all preceding authors on elocution, and even of those who have succeeded him, (except in so far as they are conformable to his system,) appear to be trifling and unimportant. With respect to the subject of Orthoepy, it is pleasing to observe with what candour he acknowledges the merit of preceding authors. powers "Among those writers," says he, "who deserve the first praise on this subject, is Mr Elphinston, who, in his Principles of the English Language, has reduced the chaos to a system, and, by a deep investigation of the analogies of our tongue, laid the foundation of a just and regular pronunciation.After him, Dr Kenrick contributed a portion of im A |