. A system of practical elocution and rhetorical gesture; comprising all the elements of vocal delivery, both as a science and as an art; . Q, has always the sound of fc k; as quart, quaff. C, has no element of its own, yet it represents six differentsounds, viz: t, s, k, sh, tsh, and z. It has the sound of s, incity, cent; and of k, in cut, cab ; and of sh, in social; of t, in victuals, (vit-tls,) and of tsh, in violuncello, (violun-tsheWo• and of i z, in discern, (diz-zurn.) CH, represents t and sh, (the thirteenth and twentieth ;)as marcA, chief, church, (martsh, tshief, tshurtsh.) CH,repre
. A system of practical elocution and rhetorical gesture; comprising all the elements of vocal delivery, both as a science and as an art; . Q, has always the sound of fc k; as quart, quaff. C, has no element of its own, yet it represents six differentsounds, viz: t, s, k, sh, tsh, and z. It has the sound of s, incity, cent; and of k, in cut, cab ; and of sh, in social; of t, in victuals, (vit-tls,) and of tsh, in violuncello, (violun-tsheWo• and of i z, in discern, (diz-zurn.) CH, represents t and sh, (the thirteenth and twentieth ;)as marcA, chief, church, (martsh, tshief, tshurtsh.) CH,represents, at times, k, (the sixth element,) as chord,cAaos, (kord, kaos,) it, at other times,again, has the sound ofsh, (the twentieth element,) as chaise, chagrin, (shais,shagrin.) In ostrich, ch has the sound of dzh, as os-tridzh. We, very frequently, use letters which are not sounded, orare silent. The italics in the following list are silent; asghost, KaAn, rAetoric, comptroler, accomptant, scene, migAt,frigAt, column, kiln, isle, corps, viscount, dracAm, icrite, ta/kwa/k, demesne, apostle, listen, mortgage. CONSONANT ELEMENTS. 43. - - - ( might sub-vocos\ andsub-aspirs
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