Excerpt from A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In Which the Meaning of Every Word Is Explained, and the Sound of Every Syllable Distinctly Shown; And Where Words Are Subject to Different Pronunciations, the Preferable One Is Pointed Out by Being Placed First
As there has been no method hitherto laid open 'of attaining even the first part, I mean the mere propriety of pronouncing words, it is no wonder that the i' second. Or ornamental part, has been entirely neglected. That which gives de 1 light to the ear, in the utterance of articulate sounds, is founded noon the cam.
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