EIGHTH YEAR.
[First Month.]
“D is silent before g in the same syllable.”
| edge | hedge | ridge | lodge | misjudge |
| wedge | budge | bridge | sledge | judgment |
| pledge | drudge | fudge | begrudge | lodgment |
[Second Month.]
“G is silent before m or n in the same syllable.”
| phlegm | malign | gnaw | campaign | gnash |
| arraign | paradigm | feign | foreign | gnu |
| benign | diaphragm | reign | design | seignior |
| resign | gnat | assign | gnarl | consign |
[Third Month.]
“H is silent when it follows g or r in the same syllable.”
| ghost | myrrh | rheumatism | rhapsody | rhinoceros |
| aghast | hemorrhage | rhyme | rhythm | Rhine |
| gherkin | rhubarb | rhombus | rhomboid | catarrh |
[Fourth Month.]
“K is silent before n in the same syllable.”
| knack | kneel | knot | knap sack | knob |
| knave | knife | knock | knowledge | knucks |
| knead | knight | knoll | knuckle | knarl |
| knee | knit | know | knell | knout |
[Fifth Month.]
“N final after l or m is silent.”
| hymn | contemn | solemn | limn | damn |
| kiln | condemn | column | autumn |
[Sixth Month.]
“T is silent before ch in the same syllable.”
| hitch | pitch | match | notch | catch |
| kitchen | botch | hatch | scratch | patch |
| latch | Dutch | watch | Mitchell | satchel |
| thatch | ditch | witch | batch | Scotch |
[Seventh Month.]
“W is silent before r in the same syllable.”
| wrestle | wren | wrist | writing | wreak |
| wrong | wrote | wreck | wrest | writ |
| wring | wraith | awry | write | wrought |
| wrath | wretch | wreath | wrinkle | wrangle |
[Eighth Month.]
“Gh is always silent after i and, when not a substitute for f or k, is also silent after au and ou.”
| sight | plight | weigh | fraught | through |
| light | wright | weight | caught | although |
| fight | height | freight | thought | slaughter |
| might | wight | aught | daughter | laughter |
SEVENTH YEAR.
PRINCIPLES OF PRONUNCIATION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
[Sixth Month.]
“A constituting or ending an unaccented syllable is short Italian a.”
| again | America | banana | fatality | papa |
| alas | amuse | canine | fatigue | parasol |
| algebra | apparatus | China | lapel | pica |
| alkali | area | data | massacre | sacrament |
| amass | arena | drama | ornament | valise |
[Seventh Month.]
“E constituting or ending a syllable is long.”
| depot | memento | obedience | really | society |
| event | museum | penal | recess | superior |
| feline | nausea | precedence | resource | theater |
| frequent | negro | precise | sacrilegious | theology |
| mechanic | notoriety | pretense | secretary | veto |
[Eighth Month.]
“O constituting or ending a syllable is long.”
| broken | explosive | melodeon | poem | spoken |
| chosen | gondola | melody | police | tobacco |
| composition | licorice | open | potato | trophy |
| coquet | location | opponent | promotion | zodiac |
| cupola | locust | pantomime | proviso | zoölogy |