rs
plow plough
poney pony
potatoe potato
quere query
recognize recognise
reindeer raindeer
reinforce re-enforce
restive restiff
ribbon riband
rince rinse
sadler saddler
sallad salad
sceptic skeptic
sceptical skeptical
scepticism skepticism
segar cigar
seignor seignior
serjeant sergeant
shoar shore
soothe sooth
staunch stanch
streight straight
suitor suiter
sythe scythe
tatler tattler
thresh thrash
thwak thwack
tipler tippler
tranquility tranquillity
tripthong triphthong
trissyllable trisyllable
valice valise
vallies valleys
vise vice
vollies volleys
waggon wagon
warrantee warranty
whoopingcough hoopingcough
woe wo
yeast yest
CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOEPY.
The following words being often erroneously pronounced by polite people,
as well as by the vulgar, their correction, in this place, agreeably to
_Cobb's Dictionary_, it is presumed, will be useful to many. Some of the
mispronunciations given are _provincial_.
1 2 3 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 5 6 1 4
Fate, far, fall, fat--me, met--pine, pin--no, nor, not, move--tube, tub,
7 34 37
bull--oil--found---_th_in--THIS.
ORTHOGRAPHY. IMPROPER. PRONOUNCED.
4 1 4 4
Again a-gane' a-gen'
4 1 4 4
Against a-ganste' a-genst
4 1 4 1
Ally al'le al'li'
1 2
Are are ar
4 4 1 1
Azure azh'ur a'zhure
1 1
Bade bade bad
1 11
Beard bard beerd
4 11 4
Been ben or been bin
22 11
Bleat
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