lukewarm greensward.

Unaccented.

When brewers mar their malt with water.
What fought ye with them all.

20. oo-ze.

(§ 10. 8. (b).)

Accented.

whoop group, boot route, do shoe, hoof roof, goose loose, food mood, tomb room, prove move, soon noon, shoon wound, soothe booth, pool cool, choose lose cooling sooner, twofold rooftree, tombstone movement, moonlight noonday, bosom loser-soothingly moodiness shoe-leather shooting-match-behoof aloof, taboo canoe, forsooth uncouth, aggroup improve, galloon raccoon.

Unaccented.

warwhoop whirlpool, cuckoo snow-shoe - holyrood honeymoon.

Those wits do very oft prove fools.

Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.

21. p-00-r.

See 20. oo-ze, and § 5. 2, and 8. 1.

poor tour, boor moor - poorer tourist, boorish moorland - (monosyl. or dis.) doer, shoer, wooer.

22. 1-00-k.

Shorter than oo-ze, more open, and without its vanish.

Accented.

put foot, took book, pugh push, stood should, good would, full wool - cuckoo cushion, sooty sugar, woman wolsey, butcher bully-withstood for good, by hook or crook.

Unaccented.

fishhook cash-book outlook, baleful lawful faithful-merciful beautiful sorrowful, altar-foot chimney-soot ridinghood.

With a good leg and a good foot such a man would win any woman in the world if he could get her good will.

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23. o-ld.

The vanish of this compound element is oo-ze, short but very perceptible. It is probably never permanently acquired by any European from the Continent. While the vulgar English custom makes the vanish more prominent than the radical, there is a vulgar style among us of cutting off the vanish altogether, or of transforming it into the natural vowel. The words most abused in this way are given below in Italics.

Accented.

pope cope, soap hope, coat boat, rote vote, folk soak, choke yoke, oaf loaf, both sloth, poach coach, robe lobe, toad goad, road load, rogue vogue, toge doge, tome comb, home loam, cove wove, stone shown, bone joan, loathe clothe, foal soul, jowl knoll, sews doze, foe show, beau dough, host most· - oval votive, notion sojourn, hautboy yeoman, soldier shoulder, molten moulder, only poetry popery, poulterer

frowardly encroach engross, withhold, prorogue depose.

tic

Unaccented.

procure profane, obey romance coherent opinion, tobacco domesoracular original-motto hero, salvo solo, furlough sorrow, fellow window-advocate absolute, opposite obsolete, crocodile syllogism -philology philosophy — absolutely orthoepy.

I am right loath to go.

But in the gross and scope of mine opinion this bodes some strange eruption to our state.

24. o-re.

The same as the last, except that the vanish is merged in the vocality of -r. To change o-re into w-a-r, or into o-r, making force like horse, and sport like wart, is not so much an error, in this community, as a wilful and premeditated perversion.

Accented.

pour tore, core four, bore door, roar yore, more nore, floor store, court fort, coarse force, poured ford, lowered (or dissyl.) toward (or dissyl.), forge form (a bench) - pouring doorway, sportive courtierignore implore, on shore restore, report aboard, afford discourse, re

Course resource.

Unaccented.

sea shore import, sideboard indoors.

Despiteful Juno sent him forth from courtly friends with camping

foes to live.

Out sword and to a sore purpose.

To the which course if I be enforced I shall o'ershine

you.

25. ou-t.

The first form in this compound is a-h, the last is oo-ze, and the intermediates u-p, o-n, o-ld, l-oo-k, are of course unavoidable. See § 3. 5, and Notes 1 and 2.

There is a vulgar custom which omits the latter half of this sound. Another substitutes a-t, or e-nd, for the former half.

Accented.

cow how, bough thou, shout doubt, house chouse, south mouth, loud proud, lown drown, foul howl, touse boughs, hound mound vowel dowry, power shower, powder dowlas, mountain countless cowardly towering, bounteous drowsiness-without arouse, astound renowned — carousing advowson, endowment unbounded.

--

Unaccented.

somehow haymow, outhouse dormouse, tynemouth war-clouds, sundown nightgown, pronoun greyhound.

26. ou-r.

This combination may be either monosyllabic or dissyllabic. (§ 8. 1.) The custom above mentioned (25) substitutes the vocality of -r for the latter half of the entire compound; as pahur for power.

Accented.

power tower, cower flour, hour bower, shower sour, scour lower — hourglass sourly, showery dowry-embowered devoured.

sunflower watchtower.

Unaccented.

And all the clouds that lowered upon our house.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths.

27. u-se.

This compound begins with y and ends with oo-ze, extremely dissimilar forms. The most essential intermediate form is one between u-p and l-oo-k. (§ 3. Note 2.)

This initial y coalesces with an articulate (h, k, g, ch, j, sh, zh) of similar form, (§ 10. 7. (a), (d),) preceding it in the same syllable. In all other cases the y is distinctly preserved, excepting only the cases where the very vocal subtonic, l, or (especially) r-, precedes it in the syllable. The reason of this exception is, obviously, that the articulation of y would cut off the preceding vocality of l or r-, leaving it in a syllable by itself, (§§ 7. and 8. ; ) and in practice the exception extends no farther than the reason for it. That is, the articulation only of y is lost after and r-, so that, even in those cases, u-se is not changed simply to oo-ze.

Two errors prevail extensively, one chiefly in town, the other in the country. The former substitutes oo-ze for the compound u-se, in all cases; the latter substitutes a compound of i-n, or e-nd, with oo-ze.

NOTE. The vice of changing the combination of this y and a preceding dissimilar element for an intermediate, which prevailed so extensively a few years since, under the sanction of Walker, is now banished from good society, (§ 5. 3,) except that sh for sy is fixed in a few words; e. g., sure, issue.*

Accented.

suit mute, newt duke, juice youth, tube tune, cue cube, feud fume, sued thews, huge gules, mule mews, view nude cupid duty, feudal dukedom, music tuesday, gewgaw zeugma ment humorous, tubular funeral

- beautiful dubious, muniimpute rebuke, induce confuse

renewing presuming, amusing diffusion.

lieu clew, lute flute, flew flume, plume blue, slew glue-pluto gluten dilute illume.

rue crew, fruit brute, through shrew, brew drew, grew ruth, rude rule, cruise bruise - truly cruel - intrude imbrued.

supreme humane

Unaccented.

mutation feudality virtue purlieu, matthew nonsuit, prelude construed actual manual, document porcupine, argument prejudice, confluent instrument — contumely educated — deputation præmunire, deglutition instrumental - gratitude longitude, parachute convolute - mellifluous incongruous.

You that did void your rheum upon my beard.

He watered his new plants with dews of flattery seducing so my friends.

There are a few conservative gentlemen, of the Walkerian school, who probably have the same objection to unlearning any thing that Falstaff had to "paying back" stolen money, that it is "a double labor," who persist in saying choon, jooty, for tune, duty, &c. Any one has a right to do so, no doubt, if he chooses- the same right that he has to button his coat behind, if that arrangement suit his ideas of propriety and taste. But we have also a right to consider either practice as an "affectation of singularity."

pure cure, sure hewer (or dis.), your lure-curate surely, durance mural-puritan curative, furious suretyship-inure impure, insure adjure, immure reviewer (or tris.) — assurance endurance, procuring allurement — futurity injurious, luxuriant usurious.

Unaccented.

nature feature, coiffure fissure, injure azure-natural accurate, luxury obdurate, perjury leisurely - furniture curvature - agriculture legislature-curator neuralgic-bureaucratic muriatic-curiosity.

She hath endured a grief might equal yours if both were justly weighed.

Your dogs and mules you use in abject and in slavish parts.

29. h.

hit heel head heard hair hat heart hall hod horse hut hail height hoy home house hue - heathen hydra harass human wholesome hothouse hartshorn - herein hereon harangue behind perhaps inhale exhale exhaust - harmony humanize heritage harassing — behemoth vehement - inherent inhabit exhibit-hospitable hierarchy - herculean hieroglyph annihilate - bah! pah! ugh!

He had learned by heart the whole art of angling.

Up a high hill he heaved a huge round stone.

ye yes yet yearn yea yare yam yarn young yacht yawn youth yoke yore yule yeanling yearly yellow yarely yankee yardarm younker yonder yorick yawning youthful yeoman yuletide-unyoke beyond -indian asia poniard bagnio million.

He yoketh your rebellious necks.

And will you yet call yourself young.

31. k.

key eke kick ken neck cake care cob back cord coil caught talk cool

d*