English spelling: dictation lessons, arranged by A.H. Barford and H.A. Tilley |
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... words ending in ial , ian , iant , iance . ia = ă , as parliament . EXAMPLES . A phial full of Friar's balsam . Liars are always shunned . A fustian coat . A partial eclipse of the moon . The parliament took the oath of allegiance . She ...
... words ending in ial , ian , iant , iance . ia = ă , as parliament . EXAMPLES . A phial full of Friar's balsam . Liars are always shunned . A fustian coat . A partial eclipse of the moon . The parliament took the oath of allegiance . She ...
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... words ending in lion , nion , scion , sion , tion . ion yon , or shon . EXAMPLES . Lambert Simnel was made a scullion in the king's kitchen . One trillion , two billions , three millions . He had a bunion on his toe . A sailor's rations ...
... words ending in lion , nion , scion , sion , tion . ion yon , or shon . EXAMPLES . Lambert Simnel was made a scullion in the king's kitchen . One trillion , two billions , three millions . He had a bunion on his toe . A sailor's rations ...
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... words , as phoenix , fœtid . To this class belong the plurals of substantives , and the third person singular , present tense , of verbs ending in o , as cargoes , echoes . EXAMPLES . Hoe the ground around the potatoes . Aloes bloom but ...
... words , as phoenix , fœtid . To this class belong the plurals of substantives , and the third person singular , present tense , of verbs ending in o , as cargoes , echoes . EXAMPLES . Hoe the ground around the potatoes . Aloes bloom but ...
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... words manikin , panikin . Words of more than one syllable , ending in a single consonant , preceded by a single vowel ( some- times a diphthong , equalled , equipped ) , double the final consonant with affixes beginning with a vowel ...
... words manikin , panikin . Words of more than one syllable , ending in a single consonant , preceded by a single vowel ( some- times a diphthong , equalled , equipped ) , double the final consonant with affixes beginning with a vowel ...
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Alfred Henry Barford. Exercise 98 . In words ending in 7 with other affixes , such as ́ous , ist , ize , ity , & c . , the doubling of the l cannot be brought to any rule . The derivation of the word is the best guide . Compare novelist ...
Alfred Henry Barford. Exercise 98 . In words ending in 7 with other affixes , such as ́ous , ist , ize , ity , & c . , the doubling of the l cannot be brought to any rule . The derivation of the word is the best guide . Compare novelist ...
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accent according affixes Algiers attack awful bear beginning bell bird blood body bread called cause church cloth compound consonant derivation diphthong Don't double drop England English EXAMPLES exceptions Exercise face fall field final final consonant flat four sounds French Germ Give given Greek hard honour horse island Italian king land language Latin letter live Lord Lord John Russell lost manner mark means mute never noble noun pair person poor practice preceding prefixes present pronounced pull received river root rule sake Saxon seems seize sharp ship signs single spelling spelt sword syllable taken termination thaet thing took tree verbs vowel waes weather wind wine words ending wore writers written yacht
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Page 91 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 90 - Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide...
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Page 91 - And foorth they passe, with pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, .Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 91 - Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, Untill the blustring storme is overblowne; When weening to returne, whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, But wander too and fro in wayes unknowne...
Page 65 - All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant in derivatives : as, commit, committee ; compel, compelled; appal, appalling; distil, distiller.
Page 100 - Na he that ay hass levyt fre, May nocht knaw weill the propyrte, The angyr, na the wrechyt dome, That is cowplyt to foule thyrldome. Bot gyff he had assayit it, Than all perquer he suld it wyt ; And suld think fredome mar to pryss, Than all the gold in warld that is.
Page 90 - And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his, dying lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield -the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had.
Page 90 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore ; And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient...
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