Journal of School Geography, Bind 2

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Hammett, 1898
 

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Side 81 - The true sound of the word as locally pronounced will be taken as the basis of the spelling. 4. An approximation, however, to the sound is alone aimed at. A system which would attempt to represent the more delicate inflections of sound and accent would be so complicated as only to defeat itself.
Side 83 - ... is the sound of the two Italian vowels, but is frequently slurred over, when it is scarcely to be distinguished from ei in the English eight or ey in the English they.
Side 82 - One accent only is used, the acute, to denote the syllable on which stress is laid. This is very important, as the sounds of many names are entirely altered by the misplacement of this
Side 293 - Gavel, or Scawfell ; or, rather, let us suppose our station to be a cloud hanging midway between those two mountains, at not more than half a mile's distance from the summit of each, and not many yards above their highest elevation ; we shall then see stretched at our feet a number of valleys, not fewer than eight, diverging from the point, on which we are supposed to stand, like spokes from the nave of a wheel.
Side 391 - Philippines for the ten years ended 1897, amounting to 6,528,965 bales (914,055 tons), 41 per cent went to the United States. During the same years the Philippine Islands exported to the United States and to Europe 1,582,904 tons of sugar, of which 875,150 tons went to the United States, 666,391 tons to Great Britain, and 41,362 tons to continental Europe; showing that of the total exports more than 55 per cent went to the United States...
Side 81 - Mecca, &c., will be retained in their present form. 3. The true sound of the word as locally pronounced will be taken as the basis of the spelling.
Side 84 - As in English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality, no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English. should never be employed ; qu is given as kw As in English.
Side 84 - Accents should not generally be used, but where there is a very decided emphatic syllable or stress, which affects the sound of the word, it should be marked by an acute accent.
Side 364 - Society, 1898), in speaking of the temperature during the winter months, says : — " It follows that where a winter climate is sought, offering, in the highest degree anywhere afforded by the British Islands, the combined qualities of mildness and dryness, such a climate is to be found on the shores of the Channel, from about Dover to Portland. To the west of Portland, and round the coast to Clifton, a higher temperature may be had, but the rainfall is greater, the climate damper, and raw weather...
Side 292 - I know not how to give the reader a distinct image of these more readily, than by requesting him to place himself with me, in imagination, upon some given point; let it be the top of either of the mountains, Great Gavel, or Scawfell; or, rather, let us suppose our station to be a cloud hanging midway between those two mountains, at not more than half a mile's distance from the summit of each, and not many yards above their highest elevation ; we shall then see stretched at our feet a number of...

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