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Certainly she could not claim to have 'added up' Constance yet. She considered that her sister was in some respects utterly provincial what they used to call in the Five Towns a 'body. Somewhat too diffident, not assertive enough, not erect enough; with curious provincial pronunciations, accents, gestures, mannerisms, and inarticulate ejaculations; with a curious narrowness of outlook!
In addition to my bodily sufferings, my ear was tortured by the various pronunciations given to the city's name. No sooner had I mastered one than I heard another! At last, driven to desperation, I tried to while away the time in composing the following 'Ode, in which my feelings, and the three different pronunciations are expressed:
This writer says that adolescence is marked by some increased love of words for motor activity and in interest in words as things in themselves, but shows a still greater rise of interest in new words and pronunciations; "above all, there is a tremendous rise in interest in words as instruments of thought."
Here you can pronounce the word calm, for example, in one way or another, and it merely indicates where you come from. Departure in England from certain established pronunciations has another effect. "That's frightful," said I, "because I say 'girl'." "Oh, but you are an American. It doesn't apply." But had I been English, it would have been something like coming to dinner without your collar.
In the establishment of these other sciences, the successful stroke was always to take some simple process actually observable in operation as denudation by weather, say, or variation from parental type, or change of dialect by incorporation of new words and pronunciations and then to generalize it, making it apply to all times, and produce great results by summating its effects through the ages.
She would have been proud had she known how much Mr. Lancelot was satisfied with her aspirates, which came quite natural. She had only dropped her "h's" temporarily, as one drops country friends in coming to London. Curiously enough, Mary Ann did not regard the new locutions and pronunciations as superseding the old.
His Eastern pronunciations fascinated them as they had fascinated Kedzie, and he soon found in them all the breeziness and wholesomeness of the great prairies which are found in the mid-Western women of literature. Gilfoyle had apparently forgotten that his own wife was a mid-Westerness, and the least breezy, wholesome, prairian thing imaginable.
What seems clear about it is that the two contending pronunciations are homophones, one with latches the other with lashes. But there seems no propriety in the SS being changed to Z. The pronunciation látchess would save it from its awkward and absurd homophone latches, and would be in order with prowess, largess, noblesse, &c.
Kate first repeated what she had learnt the day before; and then had a French master two days in the week; on two more, one for arithmetic and geography; and on the other two, a drawing master. She liked these lessons, and did well in all, as soon as she left off citing Mary Wardour's pronunciations, and ways of doing sums.
In the Aryan group of languages, the bond of affinity is easily recognisable: the roots of the words are the same: Pitri, pater, vater, are clearly but varying pronunciations of the same word. In the Turanic group, however Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Tatar, Mongol and Manchu you must expect no such well-advertised first-cousinship.
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