Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...things that strike the English speaking person of today most when studying French are the peculiar vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike...
...Mute, Mr. Brown...
...Mute, Mr. Brown...
...MUTE CHARACTERS.A Boy, a slave with Geta, Jacob W. Carret...