THE NEW INTERNATIONAL EDITORS DANIEL COIT GILMAN, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (1876-1901) PRESIDENT OF CARNEGIE INSTITUTION HARRY THURSTON PECK, PH. D., L. H. D. PROFESSOR IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FRANK MOORE COLBY, M. A. LATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS IN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY VOLUME V NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1902 Copyright, 1902 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY All rights reserved PRESSWORK BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. KEY TO PRONUNCIATION. ant, and final a in America, armada, etc. In rapid speech this vowel readily becomes more or less obscured and like the neutral vowel or a short u (ă). "final, regal, where it is of a neutral or obscure quality. "all, fall. 66 eve. 66 66 "elate, evade. "end, pet. Also for ä in German, as in Gräfe, to which it is the nearest English vowel sound. "fern, her, and as i in sir. Also for ö, oe, in German, as in Göthe, Goethe, Örtel, Oertel, and for eu and oeu in French, as in Neufchâtel, Crèvecœur; to which it is the nearest English vowel sound. agency, judgment, where it is of a neutral or obscure quality. "ice, quiet. quiescent. ill, fit. 66 "old, sober. "obey, sobriety. 66 66 orb, nor. "the German Landtag, and ch in Feuerbach, buch; where it is a guttural sound made with the back part of the tongue raised toward the soft palate, as in the sound made in clearing the throat. "j in the Spanish Jijona, g in the Spanish gila; where it is a fricative somewhat resembling the sound of h in English hue or y in yet, but stronger. "wh in which. "ch in the German ich, Albrecht, and g in the German Arensberg, Mecklenburg; where it is a fricative sound made between the tongue and the hard palate towards which the tongue is raised. It resembles the sound of h in hue, or y in yet; or the sound made by beginning to pronounce a k, but not completing the stoppage of the breath. The character K is also used to indicate the rough aspirates or fricatives of some of the Oriental languages, as of kh in the word Khan. ""sinker, longer. "the French bon, Bourbon, and m in the French Étampes; where it is equivalent to a nasalizing of the preceding Vowel. This effect is approximately produced by attempting to pronounce "onion" without touching the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth. "shine, shut. "thrust, thin. sh th zh TH "then, this. z in azure, and s in pleasure. An apostrophe, or superior comma, ['] is sometimes used to denote a glide or neutral connecting vowel, as in tā'b'l (table), kaz ́m (chasm). Otherwise than as noted above, the letters used in the respellings for pronunciation are to receive their ordinary English sounds. When the pronunciation is sufficiently shown by indicating the accented syllables, this is done without respelling; as in the case of very common English words, and words which are so spelled as to ensure their correct pronunciation if they are correctly accepted. See the article on PRONUNCIATION. |