...th, ? before t, fh, s before c, ch, see 8, 2, 66; 8, 3, 15 and 34; 8, 4, 40 sq.) is substituted for n at the end of a word, when the next word begins with one of the consonants of the pratyähära chav followed by one of the speechsounds of the pratyähära...

...(regardless of whether or not it would have borne the supralinear stroke); (3) often after the stop K at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel; (4) optionally, on any of the above letters when they occur at the end of a line; and (5) occasionally...

...occurs instead of the intervocalic plosive [t] in words such as butter or instead of the linking r at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel, for example four apples. In German it is found before a vowel, cm pain], erinnern [er'marn] (also called...

...and crasis. Elision An apostrophe followed by an empty space indicates the dropping of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. The two words are printed as two separate words. For example, àno èu.oû is printed as an' eu,ou....

...Shakespear and others of our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks and Latins often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel, but still retains it in writing like the Latins. Another liberty, that he takes likewise for the greater...

...followed by an enclitic : о -ус Ocós12. ELISION. a) Elision is the cutting off of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel: ó 6' íjXios. The apostrophe (') marks the omission, except in compounds : 8i-opwo4>wi (for Síá)....

...contracted and abbreviated thus'." A few lines above he has said that Milton "often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but still retains it in writing like the...