Excerpt from A Primary Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: With Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names
Those who use this manual will do well to make them selves familiar with the Key to the Sounds of the Marked Let ters and they will then find it perfectly easy to understand the pronunciation given to every word.
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