A grammar of the Latin language from Plautus to Suetonius 2 pt, Volum 1

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Side 21 - H, I, K, L, M, N, 0, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X. The Romans appear never to have used the three aspirates which the Greek alphabet contained, e, Ф, У ( = Х): and there is but slight evidence of their having at first taken Z.
Side 413 - then kj or tj come together rapidly, the first change is to produce 'a palatal modification of k and t. For there is an attempt to ' pronounce k and J simultaneously. Hence the back of the tongue 1 still remaining in contact with the palate, the middle of the ' tongue is also raised, so that both back and middle lie against the ' palate. This is rather a constrained position, and consequently the ' back of the tongue readily drops. The result is the exact posi'tion for...
Side lxxxii - French not merely pronounce these e's, but dwell upon them, and give them long and accented notes in the music. This recognition is absolutely necessary to the measure of the verse, which, depending solely upon the number of the syllables in a line, and having no relation to the position of accent, is entirely broken up and destroyed when these syllables are omitted. And yet when they declaim, the French omit these final...
Side 410 - ... fore a buzz, a mixture of voice and whisper, and not a pure ' vowel sound. When the buzz is strong, the tremor of the lips is ' very perceptible, and a little more force produces the labial trill ' brh. If the voice is removed, we have wh, and the back of the ' tongue being raised as before mentioned, the slightest effort suffices ' to raise it higher and produce twn.
Side 423 - N. Scipio. Magna sapientia multasque uirtutes aetate quom parua posidet hoc saxsum. quoiei uita defecit, non honos, honore, is hie situs quei nunquam uictus est uirtutei. annos gnatus uiginti is Diteist mandatus : ne quairatis honore quei minus sit mandatus.
Side 413 - ... the organs of different speakers have different tendencies, and in some (s) or (sh) are more readily evolved than (tsh) from (tj). It must be remembered that when the sound is thus spoken of as changing, it is not meant that it changes in the mouth of a single man from perfect (k) to perfect (tsh). Quite the contrary. It probably required many generations to complete the change, and the transitional forms were possibly in use by intermediate generations.
Side 408 - That a distinction is made by many, by more perhaps than are aware of it, is certain, but it is also certain that in the mouths of by far the greater number of speakers in the South of England the absorption of the...

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