Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-05-25
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SEVENTH STUDY.
Every letter in English which is us Il to repre-
sent more than one sound has a certain power in
certain combinations and other powers under other
and different conditions For instance. the
licraph al always sounds like long ga. No
tire in such words as aim. Cain, lain. wait, rail,
aid IIaig. AK, etc: 'ca' like long Sc, as IN
bean. reach teal mead. rear etc; ''oa" like ''o'
long. as in coal goad boar. goat, ROAM loan, soap
etc. The pronunciation of words depend, there
fore upon the spelling combinations which assign
the values powers to the letters.
Long vowel sounds ar indicated in regular
ways: namely by means of final silent "e', by the
insertion Of a silent letter with i'll the word and by
the ,Iubling Of the final consonant if it is sub
vocal or the use of two consonants one of which
is a subvocal In this rule broad sounds ar cast
as long Caret and tide sounds ar also long.
meat road all bind mint cav soul
mete rode pull bird toe boil boht
Short vowes, on the other hand, ar indicated by
being followd by a single consonant, or two asprat
consonants:
back fiji Hal Sol of dish Bess pus
bel Cal dol eg cash myth fact fus
1 l1ldl cOLSOudlllS III lHOuoS.lldDlS VI WoIuS az
cened on the last sylabl should not be dubld after
regular short sounds except So, which is dubld
following "a'', seq. ''i' and 'o'' to indicate the
asprat sound of So.
Al bel hill dul buf bur laf eg
Cal del mil gul cuf stat beg
Hal fel pill hui muf fur quaf eb
pal tel ril lul puff gaf ad web
pass less hiss boss
Note that Gal" is short, while "ca is broad;
pal and PAIL Hal and hail. of and off also, that
''hul' and dull hav short "u'', while pull and
''fu'' hav close "u'' (like 90 in book. Note
also "pus'' and "puss'', "poll'' and POL, roll
and dol the effect of dublng the final consonant
is very clear, and agrees with the princpl exprest
in the rule for dubng the final letter when adding
a suffix beginning with vowel. The correction
of few classes of words viii make the application
of the principls of English pronunciation wel-nih
universal, and will thereby aid greatly in simpli-
flying the spelling of the language as wei as max
ing it regular by reducing the number Of excep-
tons to the rules of representation.
''C'' when followed by "e', 'i'. "y'', or the
apostrOphe (O, is sibant or sounded like So.
Before all other letters, or when final sc" is
always paatal. or sounded like ok.
trace traceab cistern traffic traf1cking
slice sct Cyrus mimic mimicking
Can cloud cord cut accident claim cry
CO., when followed by Sc, "i'', "y'', or the
apostrophe (D is soft, has the j-sound (usuay,
but not always when foowd by any Other
letter. or is final, ''g'' is always hard.
sngd Gerald German geography Girard
George orange gyrate Geoffry giant
! geometry gender
gold gon guile guerdon gsten guy game
sag big dig
Words taking the sufix "ize' or ''se'' (''s"
vocaliz'd), use 'ise'' only where the "s'' is
aspirat, the '''' is short, as in concise and
practise. In all other cases use "ze''
criticize utilize rize advice advertize
surprize compromise baptize revive device
Change S" to "z' in verbs with the Use end
ing; it remains 's'' in nouns. Same rule applies
in other verbs with $50 and g ~ endings
abuze w abuse (n) rize w rise (n)
hour w house (n) w use (n)
The letter IS" has certain rules as to when it is
aspirat and when subvocal. Initial "s'' is always
| aspirated; between sonant vowels it is always
voc't t, or subvocal.
season say serv division Joseph rosin
weasel soap usurp sound supper rasin
| easy send
Final 50 is always breath d (asprat) when
preceded by an aspirat sound or dubd or fol-
lowd by silent "e''.
slips blacks converse laps miss acts
eclips hearse clips gneiss dense hiss
| dispense boss bluffs
ceded by subvocal sound also when preceded by