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... English , and yet pronounced reasonably well , because the vowel - sounds were then but little changed . But as from time to time the sounds of English altered , Latin was still sounded as English , and suffered precisely the same ...
... English , and yet pronounced reasonably well , because the vowel - sounds were then but little changed . But as from time to time the sounds of English altered , Latin was still sounded as English , and suffered precisely the same ...
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... English Pronunciation , with especial reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer . He began by showing that the question of our pronunciation was actually discussed by many writers of the six- teenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries ...
... English Pronunciation , with especial reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer . He began by showing that the question of our pronunciation was actually discussed by many writers of the six- teenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries ...
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... English written form ; the third , the modern English written form ; and the fourth , the modern English spoken form , as expressed by a special phonetic notation invented for the purpose . For example , the word great gives us ( 1 ) A ...
... English written form ; the third , the modern English written form ; and the fourth , the modern English spoken form , as expressed by a special phonetic notation invented for the purpose . For example , the word great gives us ( 1 ) A ...
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ERNST CURTIUS | 1 |
NEUTRAL DUTIES IN A MARITIME WAR AS ILLUSTRATED BY RECENT | 1 |
365 | 6 |
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