On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types. Including a Rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521, Volumes 2-3Philological Society, 1869 - English language |
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accent Anglosaxon assonance Bull Bullokar Chaucer consonant dhat dhee dheer dhei dher dhii dhis dhou dialect diphthong dzhe edition English F. J. Furnivall final French words G pr German Gill Greek hadd Harl Hart hath haue heard hence Icelandic infrà King Horn language Latin letters modern myddes Norman nounced nunciation occasionally Old Norse Orrmin orthography phonetic poem probably pronounced pronunciation puur rhymes Salesbury sche Scotch seems Shakspere shal shew short six MSS song sound spelling suprà syllable thou tion trissyllabic unaccented vowel W. W. Skeat weel Welsh whan whitsh wolde writing written wryten XIV th century xvi th þat καὶ
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Page 673 - A KNIGHT ther was and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Page 675 - And every statut coude he pleyn by rote. He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; Of his array telle I no lenger tale. 330 A FRANKELEYN was in his companye; Whyt was his berd, as is the dayesye.
Page 890 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Page 675 - That rounded as a belle out of the presse. Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse, To make his English swete up-on his tonge; And in his harping, whan that he had songe, His eyen twinkled in his heed aright, As doon the sterres in the frosty night.
Page 673 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 898 - O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born ! Des. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed ? Oth. Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write
Page 632 - In short, whatever the difficulties and inconveniences now are, they will be more easily surmounted now than hereafter; and some time or other it must be done, or our writing will become the same with the Chinese as to the difficulty of learning and using it...
Page 963 - The publications of The Early English Text Society are divided into Four Classes. I. Arthur and other Romances. II. Works illustrating our Dialects and the History of our Language, including a Series of re-editions of our early Dictionaries. III. Biblical Translations and Religious Treatises.
Page 784 - ... of them to passe out by the mouthe, but to assende from the brest straight up to the palate of the mouth, and so by reflection yssueth the sounde of them by the nose.
Page 455 - The verb is now very variable : je hais, tu hais, il hait ; nous haïssons, vous haïssez, ils haïssent.