Excerpt from Reprinted Glossaries, Vol. 1 His prefatory remarks cannot wholly be relied upon; even in dealing with the pronunciation of his own neighbourhood, he seems often to be at fault, partly, no doubt, from the common inability to express the sounds which he intended. Mr Ellis took considerable pains to ascertain his real meaning, but without much success. What is intended by the diphthong ea on p. 18 is indeed a puzzle whilst in the 'explanations' at p. 21, he talks of the aw in word, on which Mr Ellis remarks that ...
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Excerpt from Reprinted Glossaries, Vol. 1 His prefatory remarks cannot wholly be relied upon; even in dealing with the pronunciation of his own neighbourhood, he seems often to be at fault, partly, no doubt, from the common inability to express the sounds which he intended. Mr Ellis took considerable pains to ascertain his real meaning, but without much success. What is intended by the diphthong ea on p. 18 is indeed a puzzle whilst in the 'explanations' at p. 21, he talks of the aw in word, on which Mr Ellis remarks that aw ought to mean [sew], l but the example is utterly confusing, since word in S. Cleveland and the East Coast line is It is an additional difficulty that the author's remarks refer to the last century instead of to the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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