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, 1911 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 32
... American English is a laxity , irregu- larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... America . . . . In the tenses of the verbs , I am inclined to think that well - educated Americans conform more ...
... American English is a laxity , irregu- larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... America . . . . In the tenses of the verbs , I am inclined to think that well - educated Americans conform more ...
Sayfa 33
... American spelling differs from British in one respect only - its greater simplicity . Illustrations : Waggon , par- lour , storey ( of a house ) , pease ( plural of pea ) , plough , draught , shew , cyder , gaol , and many other words ...
... American spelling differs from British in one respect only - its greater simplicity . Illustrations : Waggon , par- lour , storey ( of a house ) , pease ( plural of pea ) , plough , draught , shew , cyder , gaol , and many other words ...
Sayfa 34
... American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are partly physical , and therefore dif- ficult , if not impossible , to resist , and partly owing to a difference of ...
... American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are partly physical , and therefore dif- ficult , if not impossible , to resist , and partly owing to a difference of ...
Sayfa 35
... Americans incline to give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , instead of sinking the third ...
... Americans incline to give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , instead of sinking the third ...
Sayfa 36
... 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 appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York