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comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro.
duced and care ID taken to note such retechni-
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DEFINITIONS are clear and exact and those per.
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derstood, and founded on a complete nal ysis
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
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emily pronounced by different rthoepists gives to
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Dictionary In oRrHoGRAPHY he has made
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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nectlons OF words to q much greater extent than
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nunciation of fClasscaland Scriptureproper names
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