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AUTHORITIES with respect 10 words newly intro
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DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
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OF the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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beet English authorities IN relation TO words differ
emily pronounced by different orthocpists gives 10
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Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
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