EIGHTH YEAR.
[Fourth Month.]
“I constituting or ending an unaccented syllable, not initial, is always short, and is usually short even in initial syllables, if unaccented.”
| divide | tirade | sentinel | fidelity | residence |
| direct | intimate | continent | digest | levity |
| finance | indivisible | defensible | hilarious | reticent |
| imitate | equidistant | predicate | maritime | reticule |
| piazza | nobility | finance | invitation | direction |
In the initial syllables i, bi, chi, cli, cri, pri, tri, however, i is generally long.
| idea | biology | climatic | primeval | tripod |
| idle | Chinese | criterion | triangular | triune |
| isothermal | chirography | biennial | binomial | priority |
[Fifth Month.]
E before terminal n should always be silent in participles, and also in most other words.
| given | stolen | ridden | bidden | forsaken |
| taken | proven | shaken | woven | gotten |
| broken | driven | written | shaven | risen |
| spoken | frozen | arisen | chidden | smitten |
| fallen | hidden | beaten | eaten | stricken |
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