Essential to good speaking and reading is a distinct and correct enunciation. This may be attained by daily prac tise upon exercises in articulation. The student will dis cover combinations of letters difficult for him to produce and these should be practised over and over again until facility is gained and a uniformly good enunciation ac quired. Reading slowly, giving full play to the flexibility of the tongue and lips, will aid materially in securing flu ency and accuracy.
Table of Elementary Sounds
a |
sofa |
o |
glory |
cw=qu |
queen |
a |
arm |
e |
not |
dh (th) |
the |
a |
ask |
e |
nor |
f |
fancy |
a |
at |
e |
actor |
g (hard) |
Go |
a |
fare |
u |
f ull |
h loch |
loch |
a |
alloy |
u |
rule |
hw (wh) |
why |
e |
pen |
u |
injure |
j |
jaw |
e |
added |
u |
but |
ng |
sing |
e |
moment |
u |
burn |
n |
ink |
er |
ever |
ai |
pine |
n |
bon |
ê |
fate |
au |
out |
s |
sin |
? |
usage |
oi |
oil |
sh |
she |
i |
tin |
iu |
few |
th |
thin |
î |
eve |
iu duration |
feature |
ü |
dune |
i |
retail |
c=k |
cat |
z |
zone |
o |
obey |
ch |
church |
zh |
azure |
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List of Words for Articulation Practice
LONG ITALIAN ä
a |
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calm |
ah |
aunt |
half |
flaunt |
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palm |
heart |
launch |
almond |
haunt |
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balm |
father |
laundry |
gape |
lava |
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arm |
suave |
guard |
laughter |
promenade
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SHORT ITALIAN å
|
ask |
grass |
dance |
master |
surpass |
pass |
slant |
chant |
draught |
enhance |
grasp |
after |
class |
basket |
advantage |
cast |
pastor |
advance |
staff |
command |
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COALESCENT â
|
care |
share |
there |
chair |
scare |
fair |
prayer |
bear |
ne'er |
various |
spare |
rare |
swear |
parent |
ensnare |
ere |
declare |
tear |
air |
pair |
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COALESCENT e
|
sir |
were |
earn |
bird |
serge |
mercy |
verse |
nerve |
germ |
versatile |
pearl |
certain |
thirsty |
earth |
learn |
first |
perch |
ermine |
mirth |
verge |
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LONG û
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due |
tune |
suit |
stupid |
lieu |
new |
pursue |
Tuesday |
neuter |
tube |
institute |
tulip |
numeral |
tumult |
lucid |
dubious |
duet |
maturity |
duty |
tutor |
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th, THE BREATH SOUND
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bath |
lath |
oath |
mouth |
sixth |
thesis |
truths |
youths |
apathy |
thousandth |
amethyst |
width |
thwart |
thing |
thing |
throw |
thrust |
thud |
thick |
length |
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th, THE VOICE SOUND
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with |
booth |
paths |
laths |
hither |
these |
there |
tho |
their |
this |
that |
scythe |
smooth |
thence |
breathe |
father |
northern |
wreath |
either |
them |
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Id, lm, nd, bid, ngdst
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bold |
helm |
land |
troubled |
bang'dst |
told |
film |
bend |
doubled |
wrongest |
sold |
whelm |
and |
crumbled |
hang'dst |
cold |
elm |
send |
humbled |
throng'dst |
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SYLLABICATION
|
peregrination |
idiosyncrasy |
temporarily |
parallelogram |
instrumentality |
antitrinitarian |
atmospherical |
indissolubly |
valetudinarianism |
circumambient |
pacificatory |
multiplication |
plenipotentiary |
necessarily |
incommensurability |
momentarily |
disingenuousness |
dietetically |
ratiocination |
lugubrious |
monocotyledonous |
chronological |
coagulation |
disciplinarian |
unintelligibility |
irrefragability |
deterioration |
consanguinity |
colloquially |
authoritatively |
incomparably |
trigonometrical |
inexplicable |
encyclopediacal |
susceptibility |
congratulatory |
dichlorotetrahydroxybenzene |
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