ORTHOEPY.
1. What is Orthoepy?
That science which treats of the elementary sounds and the pronunciation of words.
2. What is Phonology?
The science of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech.
3. What is an Elementary sound?
One that cannot be divided so as to be represented by two or more letters.
4. What is Sound?
A sensation produced on the auditory nerve by the rapid vibratory motion of any elastic substance.
5. What is the least number of vibrations that will produce an audible sound?
Sixteen per second.
6. What is the greatest number that can be heard?
About forty thousand per second.
7. What is Voice?
Sound produced by the vocal chords.
8. What is an Articulate sound?
One made by the organs of speech and used in language.
9. What is a Vocal sound?
One that is modified but not obstructed by the articulatory organs.
10. What is a simple Vocal sound?
One made without any change in the position of the articulatory organs during its emission.
11. What is a Coalescent?
An articulate sound that always precedes and unites with a vocal.
12. What is a Guttural sound?
One that is modified by the soft palate.
13. What are Unarticulate sounds?
The sounds of the vowels.
14. How many Elementary sounds do the vowels represent?
Fifteen.
15. How many do the Consonants represent?
Eighteen.
16. How many do the Combinations represent?
Seven.
17. How many do the Diphthongs represent?
Only one, as oi and oy only repeat sounds already represented by a and i.
18. How many sounds has A?
Five.
19. What are they?
Long, Short, Medial, Flat, and Broad.
20. How many sounds has E?
Two.
21. What are they?
Long and Short.
22. How many sounds has I?
Two.
23. What are they?
Long and Short.
24. How many sounds has O?
Three.
25. What are they?
Long, Short, and Slender.
26. How many sounds has U?
Three.
27. What are they?
Long, Short, and Medial.
28. How many sounds has B?
One; as heard in the word babe.
29. How many sounds has C?
None that may be properly called its own.
30. How many sounds has D?
One; as heard in the word did.
31. How many sounds has F?
One; as heard in the word flew.
32. How many sounds has G?
Two; as heard in the words go and age.
33. How many sounds has H?
One; as heard in the word high.
34. How many sounds has J?
None of its own, but represents one; the sound of G.
35. How many sounds has K?
One; as heard in the word key.
36. How many sounds has L?
One; as heard in the word lily.
37. How many sounds has M?
One; as heard in the word money.
38. How many sounds has N?
One; as heard in the word nat.
39. How many sounds has P?
One; as heard in the word pie.
40. How many sounds has R?
One; as heard in the word roar. (REM.—Some authors give r three sounds.)
41. How many sounds has S?
One; as heard in the word same.
42. How many sounds has T?
One; as heard in the word tight.
43. How many sounds has V?
One; as heard in the word view.
44. How many sounds has W?
One; as heard in the word we.
45. How many sounds has X?
None of its own, as it is a redundant letter.
46. How many sounds has Z?
One; as heard in the word ooze.
47. How many sounds has Th?
Two; as heard in the words thigh and the.
48. How many sounds has Ch?
One; as heard in the word church.
49. How many sounds has Sh?
One; as heard in the word ash.
50. How many sounds has Zh?
One obscurely; represented by si in such words as fusion, zi in glazier.
51. How many sounds has Wh?
One; as heard in the word what.
52. How many sounds has Ng?
One; as heard in the word sing.
53. What are regular sounds?
The long sounds of the letters.