The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . enture to invite attention to a fewcomical peculiarities in connection with articulate sounds. ORTHOGRAPHY. 19 Ahem! at the commencement of a speech, is a soundagreeably droll. The vocal comicalities of the infant in arms are exceed-ingly laughable, but we are unfortunately unable to spellthem. The articulation of the Jew is peculiarly peoplesh are badly spoken of, and not well-spoken. Bawling, croaking, hissing, whistling, and grunting, areelegant vocal accomplishments. Lis
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . enture to invite attention to a fewcomical peculiarities in connection with articulate sounds. ORTHOGRAPHY. 19 Ahem! at the commencement of a speech, is a soundagreeably droll. The vocal comicalities of the infant in arms are exceed-ingly laughable, but we are unfortunately unable to spellthem. The articulation of the Jew is peculiarly peoplesh are badly spoken of, and not well-spoken. Bawling, croaking, hissing, whistling, and grunting, areelegant vocal accomplishments. Lisping, as, thweet, Dthooliur, thawming, kweechau,is by some considered interesting, by others absurd. Stammering is sometimes productive of amusement. Humming and hawing are ludicrous embellishments toa discourse. Crowing like a cock, braying like a donkey,quacking like a duck, and hooting like an owl, are modes ofexerting the voice, which are usually regarded as diverting. But of all the sounds which proceed from the humammouth, by far the funniest are, Ha! ha ! ha!—Ho ! ho !ho ! and He ! he ! he !. c2 20 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CHAPTER I. OF SYLLABLES. Syllable is a nice word, it sounds so much like sylla-bub ! A syllable, whether it constitute a word or part of a word,is a sound, either simple or compound, produced by oneeffort of the voice, as O! what, a lark!—Here, weare!
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