New Practical SpellerD.C. Heath & Company, 1900 - 154 pages |
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2d syllable abbreviation abundant accent the 2d accent the last acquaintance acquire affix alpaca Anglo-Saxon animals apostrophe arithmetic attention axiom bäm barouche called celery cheerfulness Civility clothes color concealed danger dearth definition dictation exercises dictionary diphtheria discernment discreet docile dread dying elegant employed English language fancy feel felicitate fragile gentleness sound gingham glycerin grandeur grateful grieve guage habit happiness HARVARD COLLEGE haste Haughtiness horse implies instruction knowledge language last syllable Latin less lět lettuce long seat magnificence maize means mind misspelled names Negligence Norman nouns Nouns ending observation Occurrence originally overthrow paregoric person pitiful place a period plain plural politeness pronunciation pupil rules Saxon scarcity schooner sense serene sheep signifies singe singular sloop sound the g spelling square rigged Strychnine synonyms teach term things thought tion tongue treasure tureen usually venison venom verbs vowel wind words wound writing
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Page 116 - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 135 - Suppose the English language to be divided into a hundred parts ; of these, to make a rough distribution, sixty would be Saxon, thirty would be Latin (including of course the Latin which has come to us through the French), five would be Greek ; we should thus have assigned ninety -five parts, leaving the other five, perhaps too large a residue, to be divided among all the other languages from which we have adopted isolated words.
Page 146 - Might one not at first presume it impossible to bring all these uses of "post" to a common centre? Yet indeed when once on the right track, nothing is easier; "post" is the Latin "positus," that which is placed; the piece of timber is "placed" in the ground, and so a "post;" a military station is a "post...
Page 138 - His board too, and often probably it was no more, has a more hospitable sound than the table of his lord.
Page 139 - It is meant that they are words which, with great and essential resemblances of meaning, have at the same time small, subordinate, and partial differences — these differences being such as either originally, and on the ground of their etymology, inhered in them ; or differences which they have by usage acquired...
Page 39 - Saxon hind had the charge and labour of tending and feeding them, but only that they might appear on the table of his Norman lord. Thus ox, steer, cow...
Page 144 - camlet" that it was woven, at least in part, of camel's hair. Such has been the manufacturing progress of England that we now send our calicoee and muslins to India and the east ; yet the words giv« standing witness that we once imported them thence ; for "calico" is from Calicut, and "muslin" from Moussul, a city in Asiatic Turkey.
Page 137 - ... indeed is Scandinavian, though he must borrow his " countess" from the Norman), chancellor, treasurer, palace, castle, hall, dome, and a multitude more. At the same time the one remarkable exception of "king" would make us, even did we know nothing of the actual facts, suspect that the chieftain of this ruling race came in not upon a new title, not as overthrowing a former dynasty, but claiming...
Page 147 - ... or public funds, money sticks fast, inasmuch as those who place it there can not withdraw or demand the capital, but receive only the interest ; the " stock" of a tree is fast set in the ground; and from this use of the word it is transferred to a family ; the " stock" ov " stirps" is that from which it grows, and out of which it unfolds itself.
Page 146 - placed" in it, and must not quit it without orders; to travel "post" is to have certain relays of horses "placed" at intervals, that so no delay on the road may occur; the "post "-office is that which avails itself of this mode of communication; to "post" a ledger is to "place" or register its several items.