She thanked me and bade me if I had a friend that loved

her.

9. a-sk.

(§ 5. 2.) Accented.

calf chaff half, draff shaft haft, waft draught aft, pass mass lass, cast fast vast, path wrath scath, pant chant grant, chance prance trance, dance lance glance - crafty basket, castle, mastiff, vastly fastness, gasping grasping, wrathful pathway, dancing lancers — wrathfully craftiness abaft alas, surpass amass, perchance advance-devastate advancing.

Unaccented and short.

aside abase, abound around, arise alike, awake cabal, parade lament habitual calamity, fatality malignity.

Come now what masks what dances shall we have.
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards.

10. a-h.

This most guttural tonic has a perceptible vanish in the form of the natural vowel. And because the subtonic -r has the natural vowel also for its form of vocality, a careless or uncultivated ear does not perceive when r after a-h is articulated, and when not. A negligent or effeminate utterance is thus led into two errors that of omitting to articulate -r after a-h in syllables closed by another element, making ahm for arm, dahk for dark, &c.; and that of articulating an -r at the end of syllables that should close on the pure tonic a-h, making ar! for ah! dramar for drama, &c. The peculiarity of the Middle and Southern States, which substitutes a-we for a-h, has no justification whatever. The sound a-t, slightly prolonged, sometimes substituted for a-h, in New England, is equally to be avoided.

*

Accented.

palm c'alm, psalm balm, aunt haunt, taunt daunt, g'aunt

*The apostrophe (') indicates the slightest perceptible articulation of y. (§ 5. 3.)

flaunt, launch craunch, are tar, par c'ar, far bar, art ark, heart hearth, chart start, dart mart, shark clerk, dark mark, barb g'arb, pard c'ard, bard g'uard, nard lard, farm charm-almond father, saunter taunton, jaundice laundress avaunt remark undaunted embalming.

Unaccented.

data cuba, comma drama, china villa - umbrella banana, diploma enigma.

But mark what I arreed thee here avaunt.

The lark that tirra-lirra sings.

11. u-p. Accented.

cup but, duck rough, thus dost, joust touch, blood come, shove none, does tongue - upright southern, pommel drummer, combat comrade, covert plover, wonted wonder, cousin

covetous sovereign, colander fulminant

enough, above become, allonge among.

Unaccented.

rebuff

unfit undo, unbend untaught solus bonum, nation fusion.

12. u-rn.

This sound differs but little from u-p except in length. u-p is similar in form to the natural vowel which is the form of vocality of -r. Accordingly u-p appears prolonged before -r.

Accented.

cur, purr, burr slur, urn turn, churn burn - courage worry, turning burnish courteous courtesy, furniture tournament, currycomb worriment concur demur

Unaccented.

return unfurl.

urbane survey (v.), purloin curtail-courageous urbanity

- insurrection compurgation.

Put but money enough in thy purse.

Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something nothing.

13. i-ce.

A compound element before which g and k are modified, (§ 5. 3, and § 3. 5, ex.) In singing it should not be caricatured by a-we

e-ve.

Accented.

fie sigh, pipe type, k'ite bight, dike like, rife knife, dice rise (n.), side g'uide, dime rhyme, gyve thrive, eyne syne, scythe blithe, eyes rise (v.)-idyl tiger, island rising, viscount likeness piety nicety, dynasty tithingman-indict oblique, condign mankind, apply ally-satiety society, maniacal heliacal -paradisiacal hypochondriacal.

Unaccented, (distinct.)

bagpipe midnight forthright-occupy qualify prophesy (v.), palestine pantomime crocodile.

Unaccented, (obscure.)

idea hiatus diurnal, titanic gigantic primeval - irascible piratical, biography diameter.

I'll well requite thy kindness.

Nine times the space that measures day and night.

14. i-re.

(§ 5. 2.)

The Helotizing tendency referred to above (7, a-ir) omits from this element not only the vanish, but at least half the radical; e. g., fahur (one syl.) for fire.

Accented.

pyre tire fire, sire choir hire, mire wire lyre - fiery miry, tiresome hireling, irish ireland — conspire retire, inquire desire -retirement inquiry - admiringly desirable.

The following may be monosyllabic or dissyllabic. (§ 8. 1.)

buyer dyer, higher flyer, brier liar, nigher iron (irn or i-urn, not i-ron) - denier applier.

Only you do lack that mercy which fierce fire and iron extends.

15. o-n.

This element, which is essentially short, is changed for a long one (when the expression requires long quantity) in a few syllables ending in an indefinite element, or in a strongly vocal one, like those in Italics below, but never elsewhere. Dawg for dog, and lawst for lost, are ridiculous enough; but gawd for god is absolutely shocking, notwithstanding its frequency.

Accented.

fop chap, yacht what, sock hough, off loft, toss fosse, cost tossed, troth goth, watch wash, fob mob, wad trode, bog dog, wan shone, gone long, throng wrong-totter, motto, wapping chopping, stocking jocund, object oddly, torrid florid, hostage hostile ocular obstacle, follower quantity, chap-fallen, quandary extols, consols, betrothed deboshed, upon beyond, absolve resolve insolvent prolonging insoluble incongruous.

Unaccented.

pollute oblate, possess loch-ness-nocturnal loch-lomond, obcordate dogmatic colloquial doxology.

He knows not the stop.

He hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder.

nor whorl, corpse chord, torse horse, orb orgues, thorn morn -orphan orbit, fortune northward, former border-mortally orphanage, fortresses horsemanship-retort exhort, unhorse remorse, accord my lord, reform adorn-importance performance extraordinary unfortunately.

Unaccented.

seed-corn inborn, landlord lovelorn - barleycorn uniform, multiform thunderstorm.

All form is formless order orderless save what is opposite to England's love.

For lords to-morrow is a busy day.

17. oi-l.

This compound element begins with o-r, and ends a little closer than i-n; the intermediate u-p is, of course, unavoidable, and, if the utterance be very slow, is quite perceptible. But see § 3.

NOTE. The compounds of a-we, or of o-ld, with a-le, or e-nd, answer for this element to the vulgar ear only.

Accented.

toy coy, hoy boy, quoit doit, coif quoif, foist hoist, joist moist, buoyed void, coin foin, join loin, toil coil, foil soil, spoil boil, roil moil, poise toys, joys noise- loyal loiter, foible moidore, coyness joyless, buoyant voyage, poison foison, oyster roister, -ahoy alloy, exploit adroit, avoid deployed, appoint aroint— rhomboidal embroider, conjointly anointed.

Unaccented.

cycloid typhoid, rhomboid dew-point, sanfoin surloin, subsoil turmoil (n.) — counterpoise tenderloin.