Sincerely your friend,
Eulalie Osgood Grover
A LIST OF DIFFICULT WORDS
Diacritically marked according to Webster's New International Dictionary
Transcriber's Note: Most, but not all, of the pronunciation symbols could be reproduced below. As there is not an appropriate code for the "up tack"
, the double macron (e̿) has been used in its place. To see the actual page images, please click on the page numbers for these pages.
KEY TO DIACRITICAL MARKS
ă as in ăm
ä as in ärm
ȧ as in ȧbound´
ȧ as in ȧsk
ā as in fāte
a̿ as in sen´a̿te
ă as in mad´ăm
ĕ as in ĕnd
e̿ as in e̿ vent´
ẽ as in hẽr
ĕ as in re´cĕnt
ē as in ēve
ĭ as in ĭt
ī as in īce
ô as in ôr
o̿ as in o̿ bey´
ō as in ōld
ŏ as in cŏn nect´
ŭ as in ŭp
ŭ as in cir´cŭs
û as in fûrl
u̿ as in u̿nite´
ü something like prolonged u̿ as in u̿nite´
o͡o as in fo͡ot
o͞o as in fo͞od
oi as in oil
ou as in out
t͜u̿ for tu as in na´t͜u̿re
çh as in ma çhine´
ŋ (like ng): for n before the sound k or hard g as in baŋk
' for voice glide as in par´d'n