* The column headed pure includes all the vowel units of sound in the English language, all others being duplicates or combinations (more or less close) of these. The columns of duplicates are called common, because these sounds are common to several signs or letters; the corresponding sound-units in the column called components show whence these sounds are derived. The diphthongs are i, u, oi, ou. + Modified by r, according to Webster. + Consonant-vowel diphthong. TABLE NO. 3.* CONSONANT ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ::: 0 :: 150:4: Examples. as in bulb ocean cent ་ ་ fat suffice. lingual .... labial El L, 1L, 2, I 8. ཝཱ : q(u) (kw) q(u) (k) of. gig gem home joy "hallelujah. kick "6 lull. man "sing, ink ་་ labial palatal soft. hard. .... 3. bdellium, add, signed. 6. off, cough, calf, phonic, Sappho. palatal hard 3. Hogg, ghost, rogue. lingual soft 4. myrrh, mortgage, burr, corps. lingual soft. 7. Ctesiphon, hoped, phthisic, Thomas, Pitt, gazette, ptyalism. lingual soft 1. wreathe. lingual sharp 4. eighth, withe, Matthew, ap .... ophthegm. 3. of, Stephen, have. hard 2. onc, quire. soft. lingual patient. 66 66 this, with thin, pith (z) wing Xerxes labial (gz) (ks) box. . (ksh) · anxious. ་ yet 21. * This table is designed to show every sound ever given to the consonants of our language. Practice across this table, thus, "Be (giving the name), b (making the sound of b), as in bulb, is a labial, because modified principally by the lips, and has one equivalent, bb, as in ebb." letter representing a pure sound. Practice down the columns, giving the name, and then producing the sound of each Examples. TABLE NO. 4. VOWEL COMBINATIONS.* DIPHTHONGS,† ETC. No. Signs. Radical. Vanish. * A union or coalition of vowel or tonic sounds, uttered in one syllable, or by a single impulse of voice. † A union of two sounds in one syllable, closely blended, seven of which are accented on the radical. A triphthong is a union of three vowel sounds in one syllable. Uoy is a triphthong accented on the middle sound. |