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Project Gutenberg's Society for Pure English Tract 4, by John Sargeaunt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin Author: John Sargeaunt Annotator: H. Bradley Release Date: March 15, 2005 [EBook #15364] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOCIETY FOR PURE ENGLISH TRACT 4 *** Produced by David Starner, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Transcriber's Note: Phonetic characters are represented by the following symbols: [`x] = any letter "x" with grave accent ['x] = any letter "x" with acute accent [:x] = any letter "x" with superior double-dot (dieresis) [^x] = any letter "x" with superior circumflex [=x] = any letter "x" with superior macron [)x] = any letter "x" with superior breve [e] = inverted "e" or schwa [ae], [oe] = ae, oe ligature characters [=xy] = any pair of letters "xy" with joining macron, except [=OE], [=ae] = OE, ae ligature characters with macron and ['oe], ['ae] = oe, ae ligature characters with acute accent and [)xy] = any pair of letters "xy" with joining breve, except [)AE], [)ae], [)OE], [)oe] = AE, ae, OE, oe ligature characters with breve [^1] = raised "1", etc. _S.P.E. TRACT NO. IV_ THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM THE LATIN BY JOHN SARGEAUNT WITH PREFACE AND NOTES BY H. BRADLEY CORRESPONDENCE & MISCELLANEOUS NOTES BY H.B., R.B., W.H.F., AND EDITORIAL _AT THE CLARENDON PRESS_ MDCCCCXX ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN [This paper may perhaps need a few words of introduction concerning the history of the pronunciation of Latin in England. The Latin taught by Pope Gregory's missionaries to their English converts at the beginning of the seventh century was a living language. Its pronunciation, in the mouths of educated people when they spoke carefully, was still practically what it had been in the first century, with the following important exceptions. 1. The consonantal _u_ was sounded like the _v_ of modern English, 2. The _c_ before front vowels (_e_,
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