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32. g.

geese gig egg girl gave gag g'arb rug g'uide gog gall goose good goad gown gules-guerdon gherkin, gimlet gibberauger tiger sago elgin.

He gave a guinea and he got a groat.

A giddy giggling girl her kinsfolks' plague her manners vulgar and her converse vague.

33. ng.

king ring wing, gang fang pang, hung tongue sung, gong wrong song-ringing longing, harpstring lustring — anger linger stronger younger-banker anchor thinking sprinkling.

Dividing and gliding and sliding and sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling.

34. sh.

shire dish share dash shard tush shine shone pshaw shoon bush sure chagrin pacha-sugar shaster, pension nation, asia conscience, issue fissure charlatan chivalry, showery suretyship association pronunciation.

O shame where is thy blush.

The weak-eyed bat with short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing.

35. zh.

jet jeu jean jeune, (Fr.) — seizure leisure, vision pleasure, osier fusion-adhesion decision, transition abscission, explosion contusion.

A roseate blush with soft suffusion divulged her gentle mind's confusion.

36. ch.

cheap niche, fetch chirp, chat larch, touch chine, notch

torch, choice chew-cheerly richly, chamber truncheon charity chichester.

Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty.

His speech was like a tangled chain.

37. j.

jeer gin edge jerk, gaol badge, jar judge, jibe jot, joy jaw, doge june-ginger jailer, jocund joyful-oblige diverge, suggest jejune.

O Jephtha judge of Israel what a treasure hadst thou.
Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew.

38. -r.

This element should have but one articulation and one vocule. The rattle, commonly called the rolling of the r, is to be avoided, except, perhaps, for imitation, in bantering humor; e. g., “and then anon drrrrrrrrums in his ear."

reap reel, rid rim, rent rest, ray rate, rat ran, wrath raft, rye right, rub rug, rod rob, raw wrought, room rouge, rook root, roe roach, rout round, rue rule―raiment rhubarb, rural wrestle regulate ruminate — around erect, enrich unrollinterruption sudorific.

Ruin seize thee ruthless king.

The royal tree hath left us royal fruit.

39. r-.

This element has no proper vocule, for its articulation is hardly close enough to make a vocule possible. Its open vocality makes it sometimes a syllable by itself. (§ 7. 3. (6); § 8. 1 and 4.)

ear fear here, her sir fir, bare care heir, far bar mar, cur burr spur, fire hire tire, nor sort cord, war wart swart, core four soar, bower sour flower, your lure pure- revere refer, repair retard, return, retire, resort, reward, restore renewer feared heard, paired marred, spurred mired, poured soured.

Far from mortal cares retreating sordid hopes and vain desires.*

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear the armed rhinoceros or the Hyrcan tiger.

40. 7.

The nearly open vocality of this element frequently makes a syllable without a tonic. Such is the case in most words ending in le, and in the words printed below in Italics.

lea leer, lap lath, lark lump, lot toil, pule lure-navel ravel, snivel shrivel, swivel drivel, shovel grovel, hazel weasel, ousel * nousel,† evil devil, castle axle, cripple able, title meddle -novel chapel parcel- libellous legislate, loyalty loveliness.

Let Carolina smooth the liquid lay.

Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine.
And sweetly flow through all the royal line.

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This element also may be a syllable by itself, as in the words in Italics below.

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neat near, nerve deign, ne'er nap, pun nurse, coin gnaw, stolen swollen fallen warn noon, town now, tune news eaten wheaten, .even reason, deaden deafen, briton given, oaken token, frozen brazen, often roughen-cozener softening unanimous nonentity.

Main chance father you meant but I meant Maine
Which I will win from France or else be slain.

42. t.

The vocule of this explodent lingual should not be hissed, nor aspirated upon the teeth.

(See also § 5. 3, and “27 u-se,” Note.)

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tea tear, knit thames, cut turk, yacht torse, wart tool, route tour, rout tower, cute tube tatter matter, titter tetter, brittle

victual, phthisis debtor, nature feature, picture torture - titillate tutelar, testament taciturn testator temptation.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

A telltale tattling termagant that troubled all the town.

43. d.

Refer as for 42, t.

deep dead, dare add, duck curd, ride dire, dock cord, owed door, lewd due duty duly, deaden bdellium destroyed de

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Ne'er be I found by thee o'erawed in that thrice hallowed eve abroad.

And of the demons that are found in fire air flood and under ground.

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44. s.

Very short and smooth.

sea seer, cuish mess, curse scene, schism psalm, soon soot, sue suit apsis thesis, tacit sceptre, psalmist psyche, hasten chasten - beside design, verbose resource, rescind finance heresy fallacy.

Hiss not s harshly, but with a short soft sweet slightly whistling sound.

And she shall be sole victress Cæsar's Cæsar.

Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers.

45. z.

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ease zeal, bars does, furze eyes, fires boz, toys cause, vows disease ours, fuse yours - prizes houses, daisies scissors absolves, hussars observes-president sacrifice (v.)- disposals discernment.

He gives as is his usage at this season a series of lectures on moral duties.

46. th-in.

theme think, birth frith, thank path, thump lith, thing thaw, broth tooth, loath thole, forth thew, youths truths-lethe thule; thesis pathos amethyst apathy, orthodox synthesis.

Three sixths of thirteen are one sixth of thirty-nine.

47. th-is.

thee with, then they, there that, baths tithe, booth though, thou mouths-either heathen, thither father, pother mother, therefore worthy-bequeath beneath, unsheathe inwreathe.

And the milkmaid singeth blithe
And the mower whets his scythe.

48. f.

fee deaf, laugh scarf, fife fire, fop for, foil fawn, wharf few

fifty profit, often roughen-epitaph prophecy (n.), phrenetic febrifuge.

Fire enough for a flint pearl enough for a swine.

49. v.

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veal live, starve vice, void groove, vote view phen, vivid votive, heaven nephew-receive reprieve, above

remove.

The very doors and windows savor vilely.

And I to Ford will eke unfold how Falstaff varlet vile his dove will prove his gold will hold and his soft couch defile.

50. P.

pea peer, pert rap, path cup, pipe pyre, pop pause, dupe pure - pippin slipper, naphtha shepherd-papacy, populous, pabular ophthalmy.

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