The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06
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nificance, but of vitel importance. The English language belongs to the sanie sroup--tke Teutonic--to which belongs the Scandinavian, and if the Norsemen or Norinsns when they entered Englana i,y years after the conquest of Normandy had brought with them ths Scandinavian instead of the French language that won derful versatility which places modern English without a rival in the world of languages would have been entirely want ing for the wealth of it's vocabulary is without question due to the Latin element incorporated into the language through the Norman conquest
 Rise and Raise. Rise dntransitive)-Present, rise: past, rose: present par ticiple, rising; past. par Raise Ctransitive)--Present. raise; past raised; present participle. raising; past participle. raised
 Rise and Tits Uses. Rise means to move upward Examples: l. The sun rises in the east. 2 The sun rose slowly. ;. The bread is rising. f. Having risen early. VIC proceeded on our journey.
 The choice between the verbs rise and arise depends somewhat on rhythm. al- though literal meanings. or those which seem literal, have become associated with rise and fgurative meanings with arise. Thus early to bed and early to rise, etc. Qiteral) The sun is rising Qiteral.) He rose from his chair (literaD He had ris- on early QiteraL) If trouble arises tfig- urativel will help you. Music arose Zig urative) with her soft, voluptuous swell. A false prophet has arisen (dgurative) Complications arising uigurative) from lack of knowledge csused much difficulty.
 Raise and Its Uses. Raise means to cause to raise' to grow. Shall raise the rolls with yeast? fhsa xxrin These vegetables were raised in the garden.
 He is raising horses and cattle. Common Errors of the Careful
 Speaker. Until the advent of the new diction- aries, Century, Standard and lnter-na- tional, he who would conform to stand nature. picture, departure. etc. in strict conformity to the orthography Of the words. And while the nonconformist reveled in nachur, pikchlr, deparchur, to the mandates of old Webster" and never allowed himself to retrogradc from the standard pronunciattons Of these words But that unruly member, the tongue, refused to say nature. picture. departure, ctc.-in fact, it made decided depai chur. Such is the law of usage that when a pronunciation is generally adopted by good speakers it becomes cor
  cord 1t (b) Thus 1t is that Century. Standard and International indicate that one may say nature or nachur. picture or pikchur. departure, or deparchln. The careful speaker who Is unaware of this license continues to say nature, pie ;, Latin.
 Ynonasterium
 templum
 chorac
 ClauSterium
 monachus
 episcopus
 archepiscopus
 disconus
 nonna
 Sanctus
 praepositus
 sproest q
 missa
 pallium
 calix
 candela
 epistola
 praedicare
 probars
 tunica
 lilium
 rosa
 faeniculum
 ruta
 mentha
 radiX
 paeonia
 lactuca
 treowamygdaium
 pinuS
 hyssopus
 halsamum
 anchora
 arcus l Nure, etc., oblivious of the fact that fol the last decade the pronunciations ma 1 chur, pikchur. etc. not only have beer used by the bSst speakers. but have beer l sanctioned by the highest authority. For the benefit of those who may desire l to cling to the old accommodations. think | ing that the new ones have not the sane. | tion of authority or that they are, used only by careless speakers, the followins i rule is given: Rule-In elaborate or strained utteranct , the consonants t. d, S, 2 have their owr proper value but in ordinary styles ot speaking combine with the following i-el- ement Cc) into the fused sound This sound tch. i. sh or zh) Is admissible ir good common speech. fb) To refer to the dictionary as an au- thority Is only another way of referring to the best speakers. for the dictionary Is but the recorder of usage. c) U as in true equals plus co 0 as In if OO as in fOod).-CpnturY Dictionary.