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The English Language Spelled As Pronounced: With Enlarged Alphabet of Forty ... George Withers Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
The English Language Spelled as Pronounced - With Enlarged Alphabet of Forty ... George Withers Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
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Página 43 - ... letters, and each of which must, therefore, be separately observed and noted by the reader. This would be, comparatively, easy enough, if this were all : but the trouble is, that almost every one of these 200 symbols varies its meaning at times, so that, after having learned one meaning for each of them, the reader has not learned all their meanings ; and having learned all their meanings, the reader has no means of knowing which one he is to apply at any time.
Página 12 - A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.
Página 16 - It is certain that the ear is no guide in the spelling of English — rather the reverse — and that it is almost necessary to form a personal acquaintance with each individual word. It would, in fact, require a study of Latin, French, and Anglo-Saxon to enable a person to...
Página 43 - The present alphabet," observes Mr. Ellis, in his admirable " Plea for Phonetic Spelling," " considered as the groundwork of a system of orthography in which the phonetic system prevails, is an entire failure.
Página 1 - English language possesses a power of expression such as was never, perhaps, attained by any human tongue.
Página 10 - ... more than a year for children to learn to read in it." More than a year ! The hindrance which it causes to elementary education is much greater than this. Mr. Russell Martineau, in a report to the Philological Society, says :— " How spelling can be taught at all in elementary schools is a constant wonder to me. There is not a single rule which a teacher can lay down which has not almost as many exceptions as examples. Thus — ' Final e lengthens the preceding vowel, as in make, bite ;' but...
Página 12 - How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive that Dr.
Página 2 - Although the French is become the common language, in a diplomatic and social sense, it has never acquired a firm footing in extensive regions out of Europe. The English, on the contrary, may pass for the universal tongue out of Europe ; and by its bold fusion and consequent decomposition of the forms of its Gothic and Roman elements, this idiom has acquired an incomparable fluency, and appears especially destined by nature, more than any one of the living, to undertake that part. Were not the impediment...
Página 57 - I feel convinced of the truth and reasonableness of the principles on which that reform rests ; and, as the innate regard for truth and reason, however dormant or timid at times, has always proved irresistible in the end, enabling men to part with all they hold most dear and sacred, whether corn laws, or Stuart Dynasties, or papal legates, or heathen idols, I doubt not the effete and corrupt orthography will follow in their train.
Página 25 - Every distinct simple sound, should have a distinct character to mark it; for which, it should uniformly stand. 3. The same character should never be set down, as the representative of two different sounds.