Excerpt from American Manual of Phonography: Being a Complete Guide to the Acquisition of Pitman's Phonetic Shorthand The sound of e is represented in forty different ways. Ex amples: ea, as In each; ea-ae as in league; eye, as in keg/ed; eig, as in seignor; elf/ii, as in Leigh. We need not repeat that the sound of e in each of these words should be repre sented by the same letter; or that by substituting for the complex letter 6 a simple character that can be _made with one motion of the pen, seven-eights or nine-tenths ...
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Excerpt from American Manual of Phonography: Being a Complete Guide to the Acquisition of Pitman's Phonetic Shorthand The sound of e is represented in forty different ways. Ex amples: ea, as In each; ea-ae as in league; eye, as in keg/ed; eig, as in seignor; elf/ii, as in Leigh. We need not repeat that the sound of e in each of these words should be repre sented by the same letter; or that by substituting for the complex letter 6 a simple character that can be _made with one motion of the pen, seven-eights or nine-tenths of the la bor in writing would be saved. These are facts that are evi dent, after the illustrations are presented. 'and we might thus illustrate the unscientific mode of representing nearly every word in our language, with equally formidable results. But we will only state the melancholy fact, that the various sounds employed in speaking the English language are each represented in from four to forty ways, and that in the large, majority of cases two or more letters are required to do the service. It is also'true, -tha't there is no letter in the alpha bet that uniformly represents the safime' sound; thus, a has a different sound in each of the following words: ate, at, all. 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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