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Title: Society for Pure English Tract 4
The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin

Author: John Sargeaunt

Annotator: H. Bradley

Release Date: March 15, 2005 [EBook #15364]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note: Phonetic characters are represented by the
following symbols:
[`x] = any letter "x" with grave accent
['x] = any letter "x" with acute accent
[:x] = any letter "x" with superior double-dot (dieresis)
[^x] = any letter "x" with superior circumflex
[=x] = any letter "x" with superior macron
[)x] = any letter "x" with superior breve
[e] = inverted "e" or schwa
[ae], [oe] = ae, oe ligature characters
[=xy] = any pair of letters "xy" with joining macron, except
[=OE], [=ae] = OE, ae ligature characters with macron and
['oe], ['ae] = oe, ae ligature characters with acute accent and
[)xy] = any pair of letters "xy" with joining breve, except
[)AE], [)ae], [)OE], [)oe] = AE, ae, OE, oe ligature characters
with breve
[^1] = raised "1", etc.

_S.P.E. TRACT NO. IV_

THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM THE LATIN

BY JOHN SARGEAUNT

WITH PREFACE AND NOTES BY H. BRADLEY

CORRESPONDENCE & MISCELLANEOUS NOTES BY H.B., R.B., W.H.F., AND
EDITORIAL

_AT THE CLARENDON PRESS_ MDCCCCXX

ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN

[This paper may perhaps need a few words of introduction concerning
the history of the pronunciation of Latin in England.

The Latin taught by Pope Gregory's missionaries to their English
converts at the beginning of the seventh century was a living
language. Its pronunciation, in the mouths of educated people when
they spoke carefully, was still practically what it had been in
the first century, with the following important exceptions. 1. The
consonantal _u_ was sounded like the _v_ of modern English, 2. The
_c_ before front vowels (_e_,