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... vowels being heard in the last compound . In GLOSSIC [ Eft'ur di'h'thde'h ' ] , palaeotype ( Eft · ər diï'thdee ' ) . The dialect of Chaucer's Aleyn and Johan , of Langstrothdale , is of the same rural type , but of a much more ...
... vowels being heard in the last compound . In GLOSSIC [ Eft'ur di'h'thde'h ' ] , palaeotype ( Eft · ər diï'thdee ' ) . The dialect of Chaucer's Aleyn and Johan , of Langstrothdale , is of the same rural type , but of a much more ...
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... vowels being heard in the last compound . In GLOSSIC [ Ef t'ur di'h'thdeh ' ] , palaeotype ( Efter dithdee ' ) . The dialect of Chaucer's Aleyn and Johan , of Langstrothdale , is of the same rural type , but of a much more noticeable ...
... vowels being heard in the last compound . In GLOSSIC [ Ef t'ur di'h'thdeh ' ] , palaeotype ( Efter dithdee ' ) . The dialect of Chaucer's Aleyn and Johan , of Langstrothdale , is of the same rural type , but of a much more noticeable ...
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... vowels , using , for example , the same symbol [ a ] for the mid - back - wide and the low - back - wide sounds ... vowel - table may be thus represented in Glossic . a , as the short vowel corresponding to the first vowel in father ...
... vowels , using , for example , the same symbol [ a ] for the mid - back - wide and the low - back - wide sounds ... vowel - table may be thus represented in Glossic . a , as the short vowel corresponding to the first vowel in father ...
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... vowels are expressed by doubling the symbol employed for the shorter vowels . The following are examples , viz . father , faader ( the short sound of which is found in the Anglo - Saxon man , in modern English changed to man ) ; earn ...
... vowels are expressed by doubling the symbol employed for the shorter vowels . The following are examples , viz . father , faader ( the short sound of which is found in the Anglo - Saxon man , in modern English changed to man ) ; earn ...
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... vowels or consonants , by shifting forwards to the front , point or lip positions . This is clearly a case of economy of exertion , as the back formations require a move- ment of the whole body of the tongue , the front and point of ...
... vowels or consonants , by shifting forwards to the front , point or lip positions . This is clearly a case of economy of exertion , as the back formations require a move- ment of the whole body of the tongue , the front and point of ...
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