A pupil who had a very slight acquaintance with French learned an Analytic Series of French words, asking a French friend the meaning and pronunciation of the words unfamiliar to him. By doing this he in about an hour learned the spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of nearly 100 French words. Since then he has been extending the exercise, and in that way he has learned 1,000 French words. In doing so he is strengthening his memory by exercising it in accordance with its own laws, increasing the control his will has over his attention, and extending his French vocabulary.
- Do we ever see words spelt differently but with the same pronunciation?
- Is the use of the Dictionary required?
- What examples have we here of the benefits derived from Rec.-Synthesis?
- With what words did he make himself familiar?
- Does the same word frequently occur in a book?
- What proof can you mention?
- What task was accomplished in about one hour by one of my pupils?
- What language was he studying?
To remember Unfamiliar English Words or foreign words, correlate the Definition as the best known to the Unfamiliar or Foreign Word, and memorise the Correlation. In the case of Foreign Words, the last Intermediate is necessarily a case of Inclusion by sound. Sometimes there is In. by sight or by sound between a part or the whole of the English word, and a part or the whole of its Foreign equivalent, as Apple—apfel [German]. Of course, the pupil will not need the aid of a correlation in such cases if he notice the analytic relation. The French word Anachorète might have for its equivalent by sound either “Anna,” or “Core,” or “Ate,” or “Anna goes late,” or “Ann a core ate,” or “Anna’s cold hate,” and perhaps to some of my readers it would seem like something else. Cravache might sound like “Crack of lash.” Pupils often disagree as to what is good Inclusion by sound; let each use what suits himself, and not trouble about other people’s ears. In. by sound, or by sense, or by spelling, is sufficient even if it refers to only one syllable.
- In the case of Foreign words, what must the last intermediate necessarily be a case of?
- Do pupils always agree on a good In. by S.?
- What is sufficient, if it refers to one syllable only?
- What are you never to do in getting at an English word?
- What may you do in getting at a Foreign word?
- Could you not omit “camel hair”?
- Could you not omit “leather,” which follows “tanner”?
- Could you not omit after “cup” the word “tea-cup”?
- Is not “tea-pot” connected by Con. with “cup”?
- After “bread” could you not omit “baker”?
- Are not “bread” and “baker’s art” connected?
- Could you not omit “watch,” after “Time”?
| English. | Intermediates. | Latin. |
|---|---|---|
| Heart | … heart-sick … fainting … cordial … | cor |
| Wickedness | … dishonesty … blackmail … | malum |
| Book | … printed thoughts … freedom of thought … liberty … | liber |
| —— | … books … library … | —— |
| Breast | … front … front view … aspect … | pectus |
| Spear | … thrust … quick motion … hasty … | hasta |
| Suitor | … princely suitor … married by proxy … | procus |
| Ask | … borrow … swindle … rogue … | rogare |
| Marrow | … Old English arrow … victory … medal … | medulla |
| Captain | … head of hundred … century … | centurio |
| Surveyor | … measure … dimension … | agrimensor |
| Furniture | … bent-wood chairs … bent legs … supple legs … | supellex |
| Vine | … wine … luxury … pampered … | pampinus |
| Liar | … false pretence … mendicant … | mendax |
| Cow | … cow-pox … vaccination … | vacca |
| Sing | … boatman’s song … canoe … | cano |
| Kill | … kill by hanging … broken neck … | necare |
| Redden | … blush … kissing … ruby lips … | rubesco |
| —— | … red … ruby … | —— |
| Dry | … dry mouth … feverish … sick … | siccus |
| Man | … married man … home … | homo |
| War | … victory … rejoicings … bells rung … | bellum |
| Rob | … robber … hue-and-cry … policeman’s rap … | rapto |
| Tanner | … russet leather … russet apple … apple core … | coriarius |
| Dove | … married love … United States … Columbia … | columba |
| Bench | … table … shop counter … selling … | subsellium |
| Oar | … Roman galley … Rome … Romulus and Remus … | Remus |
| Garret | … unhealthy … medicine … salts and senna … | cenaculum |
| Garret | … store-room … grain store … | granaria |
| Horse | … race … dead heat … equal … | equus |
| Cock | … spurring … goading … galling … | gallus |
| Lazy | … tramp … knave … | ignavus |
| Make heavy | … rich food … gravy … | gravo |
| Sign | … musical signs … notes … | nota |
| Poverty | … drafty garret … sleeping draught … opium … | inopia |
| Messenger | … news … false news … nonsense … | nuntius |
| Top | … high perch … hen’s perch … cackle … | cacumen |
| Face | … bare face … bare headed bird … vulture … | vultus |
| Useless | … needless impatience … irritation … | irritus |
| Dark | … dark staircase … insecure … | obscurus |
| Writer | … bad writer … scribbler … | scriba |
| Harvest | … harvest home … “Mrs. at home?” … | messis |
| Dog | … dog’s tail … tin can … [cane carrier … cane[ Footnote [K]] … | canis |
| Egg | … boiled egg … boiled hard … over boiled … | ovum |
| Fox | … jackall … carcass … vulture … | vulpes |
| Bread | … sweat of brow … labour … pain … [bread-pan … pan[ Footnote [K]] … | panis |
| Table | … figures … calculation … mensuration … | mensa |
| Master | … schoolboard … fines … magistrate … | magister |
| Tree | … mast … ship … harbour … | arbor |
| Mother | … wife … helpmeet … help-mate … | mater |
- If “mendicants” are known to be liars, why could not “false pretences” be omitted?
- If “vaccination” means inoculating with “cowpox,” why could not “cowpox” be omitted?
- If “broken” neck means a violent death, why not omit “kill by hanging”?
- Ought not “billing and cooing” to be inserted after “Dove”?
- What relation is there between “married love” and “United States”?
- If “musical” be added to “notes,” why could not “musical signs” be omitted?
- If “scribbler” is a writer, why could not “bad writer” be omitted?
- Could not “boiled hard” be omitted?
- If we use “mensuration tables,” could not “figures … calculation” be spared?
- What is the relation between “Tree” and “mast”?
- Could not “lazy bones” be omitted after “indolent”?
- Why could not “schoolgirl” be omitted?
- Why could not “answer” be omitted after “question”?