The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . semi-vowels. The mutes cannot be sounded at all without the aid of avowel. Like young ladies just come out, they aresilent as long as you let them alone. Some have com-pared them, on account of their name, to the OriginalGood Woman; but how joining her to anything exceptto her head again would have cured her of her dumbness,it is not easy to see. B, p, t, d, k, and c and g hard, arethe letters called mutes, or as some have denominatedthem, black letters. 16 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The s
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . semi-vowels. The mutes cannot be sounded at all without the aid of avowel. Like young ladies just come out, they aresilent as long as you let them alone. Some have com-pared them, on account of their name, to the OriginalGood Woman; but how joining her to anything exceptto her head again would have cured her of her dumbness,it is not easy to see. B, p, t, d, k, and c and g hard, arethe letters called mutes, or as some have denominatedthem, black letters. 16 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The semi-vowels, which are_/, I, m, n, r, v, s, x, z, and t,and g soft, have an imperfect sound of themselves. Well!half a loaf is better than no bread. L, m, n, r, are further distinguished by the name ofliquids. Like certain other liquids, they are good formixing, that is to say, they readily unite with other conso-nants ; and flow, as it were, into their sounds. The specific gravity of liquids can only be renderedamusing by comical figures. The gravity, too, of a, solidis generally the more MUTES AND LIQUIDS. ORTHOGKAPHY. 17 A diphthong is the union of two vowels in one sound, asea in heavy, eu in Meux, ou in stout. A triphthong is a similar union of three vowels, as eauin the word beau; a term applied to dandies, and addressedto geese: probably because they are birds of a feather. A proper dipththong is that in which the sound is formedby both the vowels ; as aw in awkward, ou in lout.
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