The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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... American aspiration it is wholly out of place . The reply will perhaps be , " But these h's are si- lent ; the ... America ; hence we Americans should use a and not an before such h's un- til we decide to ape the Cockney mode of ...
... American aspiration it is wholly out of place . The reply will perhaps be , " But these h's are si- lent ; the ... America ; hence we Americans should use a and not an before such h's un- til we decide to ape the Cockney mode of ...
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... America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . And . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to ...
... America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . And . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to ...
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... American English is a laxity , irregu- larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are ...
... American English is a laxity , irregu- larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are ...
Sayfa 26
... Americans , will pronounce more delib- erately and clearly than a people so large a proportion of whom are unable to read , as in England . From our uni- versal habit of reading , there results not only a greater dis- tinctness of ...
... Americans , will pronounce more delib- erately and clearly than a people so large a proportion of whom are unable to read , as in England . From our uni- versal habit of reading , there results not only a greater dis- tinctness of ...
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... American type . That the delicate organs of articulation should participate in such tendencies is altogether natural ; and the operation of the causes which give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform ...
... American type . That the delicate organs of articulation should participate in such tendencies is altogether natural ; and the operation of the causes which give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis English English Language error euphonious example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter means meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun proper properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown sense sentence simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence tense term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar woman word is sometimes