Anglo-Saxon Grammar And Exercise Book: With Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading and Glossary - Couverture souple

Smith, Charles Alphonso

 
9780548823361: Anglo-Saxon Grammar And Exercise Book: With Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading and Glossary

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Excerpt ounded):[1] #bry:d#, bride. The diphthongs, long and short, have the stress upon the first vowel. The second vowel is obscured, and represents approximately the sound of er in sooner, faster (= soon-uh, fast-uh). The long diphthongs (æ: is not a diphthong proper) are êo, îe, and êa. The sound of êo is approximately reproduced in mayor (= mâ-uh); that of îe in the dissyllabic pronunciation of fear (= fê-uh). But êa = æ:-uh. This diphthong is hardly to be distinguished from ea in pear, bear, etc., as pronounced in the southern section of the United States (= bæ-uh, pæ-uh). 7. The short sounds are nothing more than the long vowels and diphthongs shortened; but the student must at once rid himself of the idea that Modern English red, for example, is the short

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