Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste -Saint Valentine is past; Screams loud ;- a, arm; ea, heart; au, laugh. ARM, harm, farm; armour, armed, army, armory, harmful, harmless, harmlessly, harmony, harmonize, harmonizing, harmonical, harmoniously; farmer, farmed, pharmacy; charm, charming, charmed, charmingly; alarm, alarming, alarmed, alarmingly. Part, partner, particle, parting ; cart, carter, carting, darting ; smart, smartness, smarting; HEART, hearty, heartful, heartless, heartiness, heartning; LAUGH, laughing, laughter, laughingly. Lessons on the Fifth vowel sound. a Why thy Godhead laid apart -When I did hear, And laughter, holding both his sides. a man, manyMAN, many; fan, pan, tan, can, (an) anchor, anchorite, anchoring, anchorage ; anger, angry, angrily, ancle; fancy, fanciful, fanciless ; (ban) banner, bannerol, banneret, bantling, bandy, bandbox, bandage, banish, banishing, banished, banishment, banter, bantling, bankrupt, banter, bantering, banking, banquet, annoy, annoying, annoyance, (tran) transform, translate, transfer, transformer, transforming, transformation; transpose, transposing, transposer, transposes, transposition. Lessons on the Sixth Vowel sound. sea ; the year, When this is known, then to divide the times : hours must I take my rest, a So many The Seventh Vowel sound is marked by e as in bed, bred ; also by ea in bread, &c. BED, wed, sped ; bedding, wedding; bedlam, bed-time ; meddle, peddle; pedlar, medlar; credit, creditor, credible, creditable; dejected, suspected. dissected, elected, rejected. To bed, to bed, to bed.—Macbeth. How begot, how nourished ? Bread, tread, dread; death, breath; treading, spreading, dreading, dreadful, dreadnought; treasure, pleasure, treasured, pleasurable. Bread, Gentlemen, bread is the staff of life; In bread is contained, inclusive, the quintessence of beef, veal, mutton, partridge, plumb-pudding, and custard ; and to render all complete, there is intermingled a due quantity of water, whose crudities are corrected by yeast. Therefore, he who eats bread, at the same time eats the best of food, and drinks the best of liquors. Come on, brothers; the cause is good; fall to, and spare not. Here is a shoulder of excellent Banstead mutton, [pointing to a brown loaf,] as ever was cut with knife.-Swift. The Eighth Vowel Sound is marked by a, as in Kate, phrase, brave, &c. Nay, your name is Kate, And folly guides. –Vain, again, slain," Fought all his battles o'er again, Better to reign in hell, then serve in heav'n, As mankind soon, and this new world shall know. Now, night came on, and evening grey, a Heaven first taught letters for some wretches' aid, -Pair, fair, air, None but the brave deserve the fair. More tuneable than lark to the shepherd's ear. ei or ie, yield, believe, eo, people i, machine. FEAR, rear; sea, tea, lea; seal, heal, meal ; fearing, fearful, fearless ; rcaring; seaman, seamanship; sealing, sealed, healing; heat, meat, beat, seat; seam, beam; beating, heating, seating ; heated, seated, retreated; people, peopled, peopling; field, yield, wield, yielded, yielding; deity, deist; machine, routine, tontine, vaccine, marine, submarine, transmarine; magazine, quarantine, ultramarine. Lesons on the Eighth Vowel Sound. -To me you speak not: say which grain will grow, and which will not ; Speak;-I charge you, what are ye? Some people can see other peoples' faults, and not see their own; yet if people would mind their own business instead of other peoples', it would be better for them. Let's muster men, my council is my shield; A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound. If man were born without free will, he would be a mere machine, incapable of acting for himself; and as being a machine, could not be accountable to his Maker. The Ninth Vowel sound is marked by e, ee, as in me, ye, we, see, tree, three. CERATE, cerecloth; secret, secrete, secreting, secretly; hereby, herewith, heretofore; precept, predal, prefect, prefix, premier, premium, prestige, precinct, preclude, precise ; preferring, preferred, precisely, preciseness, precision, preamble, preambulate, precipitate, predestinate, predestinarian; seeing, freeing; threefold, freehold, freeholder; sweet, sweetly, sweetheart, (with rin) beer, deer, fleer, geer; fleering, geering, jeeringly, (with ee in) feel, feeling, feelingly. Lessons on the Ninth Vowel Sound. COMBINED VOWEL SOUNDS. There are two vowel sounds. The first combined vowel sound is marked by— i, white y, why, fly, i, kind. WHITE, sight, rite, might; mind, bind, find, hind, grind; minding, mindful, mindless, minded; binding, binder ; kindly, kindness : grinding, grinder; lind, lining ; light, lightsome, life, lifeless; confine, confining, confinement; unkind, unkindness, unkindly; mankind, womankind, humankind, gravelkind; behind, behindhand; delight, twilight, daylight, starlight; highlife, lowlife; confide, decide, divide, coincide; regicide, homicide, tyranicide, parricide, matracide, fratricide, infanticide, suicide ; sly, why, dry, my, try, sky; slyly, slyness; drying; dryly, dryness; skyey, skycolor, skycolored, skylight, skylark, skyrocket ; justify, rectify, testify, purify, pacify, crucify, terrify, fortify, beautify, sanctify, signify, fructify, qualify, glorify: justifying, justified ; purifying, rectifying, testifying, pacifying, crucifying, multiplying, notifying, terrifying, fortifying, beautifying. Lessons on the First Combined Vowel Sound. -Now, for your answer : |