contemplate contend contribute control converge convey convince convulse correct correctly correctness corrupt corrode corroborate.

3d. The errors of articulation in middle syllables are chiefly those which arise from the omission or obscuring of e, o, or u unaccented, and the letter r before a liquid. These letters, although they should never be rendered prominent, ought always to possess their true sound, according to the nature of the combination of letters in which they occur.

The faulty omission of e takes place as follows: Several every severing tottering murderer fluttering utterance traveller gravelly deliverer deliberate desperatepronounced erroneously sev'ral ev'ry, &c.

The omission of o: Corroborate history rhetoric melancholy memorable memory desolate-pronounced incorrectly corrob❜rate hist❜ry, &c.

The omission of the letter u: Articulate perpendicular accuracy masculine regular-mispronounced artic❜late, &c.

The obscuring of the letter o, or changing its sound from that of o in domain to that of o in done: Composition compromise disposition melody custody colony eloquence advocate absolute opposite obsolete

crocodile philosophy philology zoologypronounced incorrectly compusition melŭdy eluquence, &c.

The obscuring of the letter e, or giving it the sound of e in her for that of e in rewrite: Society sobriety variety contrariety satiety erroneously pronounced sociuty, or as if divided thus: societ-y, &c.

The omission of the letter r: Alarming disarming returning discerning confirming worldling reforming conformably remorsefully reverberate warrior-mispronounced alaʼming disaʼming, &c.

4th. The errors of articulation in final syllables are chiefly those of omitting or obscuring the sounds of vowels-particularly that of the letter e. This letter, when it occurs in a final syllable unaccented, should have an obscure sound which is intermediate between that of e in met and that of e in mete, resembling i short, and avoiding an exact or analytic style bordering on either of these particular forms of the vowel.

Omission of e: Travel gravel vessel level hovel novel model chapel parcel sudden hyphen sloven mittens-mispronounced trav❜l, &c.

Omission of a: Musical festival comical critical capital metal canonical pontifical numerical juridical ecclesiastical pharisa

ical paradisiacal fatal fantastical principal-mispronounced music'l met'l, &c.

Omission of i: Certain fountain uncertain-mispronounced cert'n, &c.

Omission of o: Horizon notion motion oraison diapason creation contusion explosion-mispronounced horiz'n, &c.

Obscuring the sound of e so as to make it resemble that of e in her or of u in but. Moment confidence equipment dependence dependent silent anthem providence independent prudent impudent confident parliament expedient-incorrectly pronounced momunt confidunce, &c. The e in these terminations should be that of the word met, without accented force.

Obscuring the sound of a in a manner similar to that mentioned above: Ascendant descendant defendant perseverance jubilant expectant defiance affiance ordinance-mispronounced ascendunt defiunce, &c.

Obscuring the sounds of o and ow final into that of u in but: Potato tobacco motto fellow window widow meadow willow billow follow hallow-mispronounced potatu fellu, &c.

Omitting the sound of g in the nasal

diphthong ng: Waking morning running walking dancing eating drinking sleeping resting flying moving swimming writing being deserving drawing drowning fawning. These and many other words are pronounced incorrectly, thus: wakin' mornin' runnin', &c.

Omitting the sound of r: War far star floor before flower more alarm return enforce recourse unhorse remorse unfurl concert depart departure character mutter murmur creator actor spectator nature creature feature-commonly mispronounced waw, fah, stah, ala'm, retu'n, depa't, depatshu', &c.

Sounding y final like e in her: City society conformity duty beauty-mispronounced citě, societě, &c. *

Adding the sound of r to final vowels and diphthongs when they occur before a word beginning with a vowel: thus, idear of, &c. lawr of, &c. tobaccor in, &c. drawr a plan, &c. [See errors in final syllables farther exemplified in 'exercises in articulation.']

*These and several other classes of errors might have been arranged under the general head of pronunciation, and pointed out in the lesson on that subject. But it seemed preferable to trace them to their source--a faulty articulation, or want of precision in the play of the organs.

Comman errors exemplified in phrases. [The importance of exemplifying current errors in phrases or sentences, arises from the fact, with which teachers are familiar, that a word placed separately on a column or a list, becomes necessarily so conspicuous as to be more attentively observed and correctly pronounced; while the same word, merged in the body of a phrase, is apt to escape the attention, and to be pronounced incorrectly.]

I saw (sawr)* a man who told me all things that ever I did.

I have no idea of (idear of) what is

meant.

He will sail for Cuba (Cubar) in a few days.

We were at that time speaking of (speakin') your brother.

He had violated the law of (lawr of) the land.

There were several (sev'ral) rare books in his collection.

They were every (ev'ry) moment expected to appear.

They were travelling (trav'llin') in great

haste.

The visiters were numerous (num'rous) on that day.

*The error in the above examples, is contained within the parenthesis.