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[Transcriber's Notes:
Do you remember how to spell "pharmacopoeia" or
"Winnipiseogee"? This was for sixth grade!
Here is a chance to expand your vocabulary or just
enjoy a trip to the grade school of 1900.
Don Kostuch
]
ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES .
McGUFFEY'S ®
ECLECTIC
SPELLING-BOOK.
REVISED EDITION.
McGuffey Editions and Colophon are Trademarks of
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
NEW YORK-CHICHESTER-WEINHEIM-BRISBANE-SINGAPORE-TORONTO
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PREFACE.
In revising this book, care has been taken to preserve all the
excellences that have so long and so favorably distinguished
McGUFFEY'S ECLECTIC SPELLING-BOOK: and the chief changes
that have been made, have been suggested by the evident plan of the
original work.
The old system of indicating the pronunciation by numerals, called
"superiors," has been abandoned, and the diacritical marks used by
Webster have been adopted. The Revised Speller conforms in
orthography, pronunciation, and syllabication to the latest edition of
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Exercises have been given on each of
the distinctive marks used in the book, as will be seen by reference to
Lessons 36-57.
A number of lessons have been added in the department of prefixes
and suffixes, and now nearly all the more common of these etymological
principles have been explained. (See Lessons 136-167.)
In arranging the text of the several lessons, the object has been not to
appeal merely to arbitrary memory, but to associate each lesson with
some principle of sound, meaning, or accent, which would tend to aid the
pupil in acquiring a knowledge of our language. Several distinct lessons
on pronunciation are given, and towards the close of the book numerous
lessons of difficult words in orthography have been introduced.
Instead of indicating silent letters by italics, as has hitherto been done,
a new type has been made in which such letters are canceled, thus
enabling the pupil to discover their status at a glance.
The pages have been enlivened, as in the other books of this Series, by
attractive engravings.
The publishers take pleasure in acknowledging the valuable services of
W. B. Watkins, D. D., who planned and executed this revision.
DECEMBER, 1879.
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Copyright, 1879, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
(ii)
THE ENGLISH ALPHABET.
The English Alphabet consists of twenty-six letters, viz.:
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z.
Letters are divided into VOWELS and CONSONANTS.
The Vowels are those letters which can be perfectly sounded without
the aid of any other letter. The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w , and y.
The vowel sounds of w and y are the same as those of u and i . A, e , and
o are always vowels. I, u, w , and y are sometimes consonants.
A Diphthong is the union of two vowels in one sound. When both
vowels are sounded, the diphthong is called PROPER, because then it is
really a DIPHTHONG, or double sound; that is, the sounds of the vowels
unite; as, oi in oil ; ou in sound .
When only one of the vowels is sounded, the diphthong is called
IMPROPER, because then, as one of the vowels is silent, it is not
properly a DIPHTHONG, though it takes that name; as, oa in boat , ui in
suit , where a and i are silent.
The following diphthongs are in common use, viz.: oi, oy, ou, ow, ae,
ai, au, aw, ay, ea, ei, eo, eu, ew, ey, ia, ie, oa, oe, ua, ue, ui ; as in toil,
boy, round, plow, seal, coal, head, sail, say, aught, yeoman . Of these, oi,
oy, ou , and ow are generally proper diphthongs; though sometimes ou and
ow are improper, as in famous , where o is silent, and in slow , where w is
silent.
A Triphthong is the union of three vowels in one syllable; as, eau in
beau , iew in view . The triphthong is properly a union of letters , not
sounds .
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