Pronouncing Vocabulary Of Geographical And Personal Names To Which Is Added A Complete List Of Scriptural Names By Elias Longley

Author : Elias Longley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428126797
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Pronouncing Vocabulary of Geographical and Personal Names written by Elias Longley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pronouncing Vocabulary of Geographical and Personal Names: The Geographical List Embraces All the Names Worthy of Note in the Known World, Accompanied With Such Descriptive and Statistical Facts as Are Usual in Gazetteers; The Personal Names Comprise Those of the Most Celebrated Men of Ancient and Modern Times Primarily, then, an insurmountable difficulty in the way of accurately rep resenting by means of the Roman alphabet any words whatever, is, in its consisting of but twenty-three representative letters, while the spoken language consists of upwards of forty distinct sounds! And secondarily, even were there a uniformity in the notation used by the different authorities in supplying the deficiency caused by employing the Romanic semi-alphabet, it is still Open to the charge of complexity and inaccuracy, and therefore unfit to be used in teaching children a correct pronunciation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.