A Drill Manual for Improving Speech

ANON back vowel blending breath stream forced Caesar combination COMMON SPELLINGS Compare the sounds diacritic diphthong Eastern American Eastern and Southern EDGAR ALLAN POE English EXERCISES father following pairs fricative front vowel GILBERT AND SULLIVAN glide gumridge heard HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW italicized syllables LEWIS CARROLL linking-r lips mouth NASALS night nose nounced OCCASIONAL SPELLINGS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES pairs of words phonetic symbols plosive pronunciation read the examples Read the following rhythm Rip Van Winkle SELECTIONS FOR DRILL SHAKESPEARE Soft palate raised sonant Southern American speech SPELLING UNSTRESSED FORM Stress the italicized tongue is bunched tongue-tip triphthong UNSTRESSED FORM EXAMPLE unstressed syllables upper side teeth usually pronounced Vibrating breath stream voiced consonant VOICED Vibrating breath voiceless consonant VOICELESS Soft palate vowel-murmur walk WASHINGTON IRVING