The Manual of Orthoepy:: Being an Attempt, on a New Plan, to Render a Right Pronunciation of Words Attainable at First Sight. The Whole Accompanied by More Than Two Thousand Original, Curious, Scarce, and Explanatory Notes Upon the Inaccuracies of Our Language, and Those Other Improprieties of Speech Denominated Solecisms, Barbarisms, Cockneyisms, and Vulgarisms. With an Addenda of Forein Words and Phrases, Translated, which Occur in General Or Miscellaneous Reading..H.C. Todd, Bookseller, 23, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields., 1832 - Pronunciation - 104 pages |
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adjective Affectedly ancient applied authors barbarised Barbarously canaille Christ church cockneyism coin common Commonly confounded contraction Corr corruption Corruptly Corruptly called court crasis denotes derived Dictionaries disused England English erroneously Euroclydon former Formerly accented Formerly spelt French Frequently Glastonbury Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury thorn Greek hence horse Hyades Hydrocele improper Improperly written invented Johnson kind King language late writer Latin letters Lincoln's Inn Fields liquor live Lord Louis-d'or low Londoners low word means Metonomy Mis-spelt miscalled noun Obolus obsolete origin orthoepy orthography Paragoge participle person philologer phrase piece plant plural Pope preterit pronunciation Prop Properly Queen revenue Rome schools second syllable ship Sometimes spelt sort speakers spells Stilton cheese Street syllable term thing Tipstaff town trifling Usually verb vowel Vulg vulgar Vulgarly Vulgarly called Vulgarly pronounced Vulgo whilst wine woman write
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Page 92 - No farther; the utmost point. Ne quid nimis. Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
Page 85 - Shakspeare's dramas, which are yet extant, were taken down by the ear or in short-hand during the exhibition. At the end of the piece, the actors, in noblemen's houses and in taverns, where plays were frequently performed, prayed for the health and prosperity of their patrons; and in the publick theatres, for the king and queen.
Page 93 - Sans Dieu rien, Nothing without God. Sauve qui peut, Save himself who can.