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...think that one great reason for it is to be found in his different system of versification. His measures and rhymes and the greater nicety of ear demanded by them would lead him naturally to a choice of words which would give him a greater number of vowel-sounds and a greater variety of endings. Yet, if we take the beginning of the Romance of the Rose, which, being a translation from the French, would be as likely as anything he wrote to be colored by that language, we shall find that the proportion of French words in it, though...
...final step, the employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions. The Egyptians had the first real alphabet, real in the sense of having a sign for each letter. Babylonian and even Arabic have signs for only three of their vowel sounds. The Phoenician people in their commercial relations and in their position as intermediaries between the great nations of the earth, were the first to make a script that was extensively used in the world. Without exception all alphabets have been developed in one way or another from the Phoenician...
...December 28, Mr. C. H. Grand gent, formerly of Harvard, read a paper on 'Vowel Measurements." After many other papers the election of officers look place. James Russell Lowell was unanimously re-elected president. Harvard was represented on the executive council by Professor G. A. Bartlett. Considerable discussion was raised over a proposed scheme of uniform elementary and advanced requirements in German and French for admission to college. A list of books was submitted by the committee on this subject, but was not accepted by the convention, which adjourned without reaching any decisive action...
...most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted...
...used to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still...