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I myself, because our ancestors never admitted the aspirate, unless where a syllable began with a vowel, used to say pulcros, Cetegos, triumpos, and Cartaginem: but some time afterwards, though not very soon, when this grammatical accuracy was wrested from me by the censure of the ear, I resigned the mode of language to the vulgar, and reserved the theory to myself.
A little squeak sprung from the nutter in the masterly woman's heart. "You sigh, Mrs. Major?" "Oh, Mr. Marrapit, I can't bear to see you lying there. The" she paused against an effort, then took the aspirate in a masterly rush "the house is not the same without you." "Your sympathy is very consoling to me, Mrs. Major." "Oh, Mr. Marrapit!"
Alexander's cob, in the knee. When I came down here before breakfast this mornin'" when Freddy was feeling more acutely than usual his position as an M.F.H., he cut his g's and talked slightly through his nose, even, on occasion, going so far as to omit the aspirate in talking of his hounds "there wasn't a sign of him kennel door not open or anything. I let the poor brutes out into the run.
Pole lifting his white waistcoat with the effort, sent a word abroad, loudly and heartily, regardless of its guardian aspirate, like a bold-faced hoyden flying from her chaperon. They had dreaded it. They loved their father, but declined to think his grammar parental.
Pole lifting his white waistcoat with the effort, sent a word abroad, loudly and heartily, regardless of its guardian aspirate, like a bold-faced hoyden flying from her chaperon. They had dreaded it. They loved their father, but declined to think his grammar parental.
At any hour the evening newspapers might be publishing his portrait and biography! On going downstairs he was cheered a little by meeting an apologetic Eliza. "I hope I didn't do any reel 'arm, sir," she said, dropping an aspirate in sheer emphasis. "Any harm to whom, or what?" he asked. "By talkin' as I did afore that 'tec, sir." "All depends on what you said to him.
The object of Mrs. Mutimer's chastisement was the youngest member of the family, known as 'Arry; even Richard, who had learnt to be somewhat careful in his pronunciation, could not bestow the aspirate upon his brother's name.
And this collation of "Hamlet" also enables us to decide with approximate certainty upon the period when these manuscript readings were entered upon the margins of the folio. Not more surely did the lacking aspirate betray the Ephraimite at Jordan than the spelling of this manuscript corrector reveals the period at which he performed his labors. Take, for instance, the word "vile."
ASPIRATE CURRENTS. Some years ago, in making experiments with the outstretched wings of one of the large soaring birds, a French sailor was surprised to experience a peculiar pulling motion, when the bird's wings were held at a certain angle, so that the air actually seemed to draw it into the teeth of the current.
She assured me I must be lying when I said I was an Englishman, because I did not drop my H's. All the Englishmen she ever met had apparently known as much about the aspirate as the later Greeks did of the Digamma. This cheered me up greatly, and we were firm friends. In fact, I woke up in the Sierras and found her fast asleep with her head on my shoulder.
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