Lessons in Enunciation; Comprising a Course of Elementary Exercises, and a Statement of Common Errors in Articulation, with the Rules of Correct Usage

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. ... EXERCISES IN ENUNCIATION. Note to Teachers.--The following exercises embrace all the elementary sounds of the English language, with the most important among those that occur in combinations which are liable to mispronunciation. A correct and careful articulation of them, if practised with due frequency and continued for a length of time sufficient to render accuracy habitual, will secure a distinct and appropriate enunciation in all exercises of reading and speaking. To attain this result, the following paints require particular attention, on the part both of the pupil and the 1st. That the exercises be always performed with great force and clearness of articulation, so as to become a useful form of discipline to the organs. The aim of the learner should be, in every cose, to give the utmost articulate force of which his voice is capable. 2d. The sound of each element should be perfectly at command, before the pupils are allowed to proceed to the enunciation of the words in which they are exemplified. 3d. Great care must be taken to avoid a formal and fastidious prominence of sound on unaccented every word, though uttered with the utmost energy, must retain the proportions of accented and unaccented syllables in their natural and appropriate pronunciation. Table of the Elementary Sounds of the English Language. [The elements contained in this table should be practised, with and without the words in which they are exemplified, with great attention to accuracy, and repeated as a daily preliminary exercise.] 10. /, as in Pine; Y, as in Rhyme. 11. J, as in Pin; Y, as in Hymn. 12. O, as in No; OA, as in Oak; OU, as in Course; O W, as in Own. 13. 0, as in Move; 00, as in Mood; U, as in True. 14. 0, as in Nor. 15. O, as in...