The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rds of two syllables never have more than one ofthem accented, except for the sake of peculiar , however, whose profession it is to drive certainpublic vehicles called cabs, are much accustomed to disre-gard this rule, and to say, polite (or pur-lite), gen-teel, con-cern, pd-lice, and so on: nay, they go sofar as to convert a word of one syllable into two, for thesake of indulging in this style of pronunciation; and thusthe word queer is pronounced by them as ke-ver. The
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rds of two syllables never have more than one ofthem accented, except for the sake of peculiar , however, whose profession it is to drive certainpublic vehicles called cabs, are much accustomed to disre-gard this rule, and to say, polite (or pur-lite), gen-teel, con-cern, pd-lice, and so on: nay, they go sofar as to convert a word of one syllable into two, for thesake of indulging in this style of pronunciation; and thusthe word queer is pronounced by them as ke-ver. The word a-men, when standing alone, should bepronounced with two accents. The accents in which it usually is pronounced are veryinelegant. Clerks, now-a-days, alas! are no scholars. Dissyllables, formed by adding a termination, usuallynave the former syllables accented: as, Foolish, block-tiead, &c. I 114 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The accent in dissyllables, formed by prefixing a syllableto the radical word, is commonly on the latter syllable: as, I protest, I declare, I entreat, I adore, I ALL FOR LOVE. Protestations, declarations, entreaties, and adorations,proclaim a swain to be simply tender; but expiration (forlove) proves him to be decidedly soft. A man who turns lover becomes a protest-ant; and hisconduct at the same time generally undergoes a reforma-tion, especially if he has previously been a rake. The zeal, however, of a reformed rake, like that of Jack,in Dean Swifts Tale of a Tub, is sometimes apt tooutrun his discretion. PROSODY. 115
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