QUESTIONS.
1. Explain the terms sharp, explosive, true aspirate, apparent aspirate, broad, dependent.
2. Exhibit the difference between the quantity of syllables and the quantity of vowels.
3. Accentuate the following words,—attribute (adjective), survey (verb), August (the month).
4. Under what conditions is the sound of consonants doubled?
5. Exhibit, in a tabular form, the relations of the a) mutes, b) the vowels, underlining those which do not occur in English.
6. What is the power of ph in Philip? what in haphazard? Illustrate the difference fully.
7. Investigate the changes by which the words picture, nature, derived from the Latin pictura and natura, are sounded pictshur and natshur.
8. How do you sound the combination apd? Why?
9. In what points is the English alphabet insufficient, redundant, and inconsistent?
10. Why is z (zæta), which is the sixth letter in the Greek, the last in the English alphabet?