Solemn style, as distinguished from the familiar, —should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar, —is not adapted to familiar discourse, —pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered, —examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE, conjugated.
Some, classed,
—vulg. used for somewhat, or in some degree, ("SOME longer,"
SANB.). Somehow or other, somewhere or other, what the
construc. Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere, &c., their class, and how
should be written.
Sort, see Kind.
Sound, of a letter, commonly called its power,
—elementary, of the voice, defined.
—Sounds, simp. or primary, numb. in Eng.,
—elementary, what meant by; are few in numb.; their combinations may
be innumerable.
—Vowel sounds, or vocal elements, how produced, and where heard;
what those in Eng., and how may be modified in the format. of
syllables; do., how may be written, and how uttered.
—Consonant sounds, simp., in Eng., how many, and what; by what
letters marked; in what words heard.
—Sounds, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them.
—Sounds, a knowledge of, how acquired,
—importance of being early taught to pronounce those of one's native
lang.
—Passage exemplifying all the letters, and all the SOUNDS, in Eng.
—Sounds of the Letters, treated.
Speak, to speak, what is meant by.
Speaker, why often speaks of himself in the third pers.,
—represents himself and others by we,
—in Eng., should mention himself last.
—The elegant speaker, by what distinguished.
Species and figure of words, what so called,
—unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the
latter. Species and genus of things, how admits limitation by the
article.
SPELLING, defined.
—Spelling, how to be acquired,
—cause of the difficulty of its acquisition,
—Rules for,
—usage, as a law of,
—uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained.
—The right spelling of a word, what, PHILOLOG. Mus.
—Oral spelling, how should be conducted.
—Charac. of BROWN'S rules for spelling.
Spondee, defined.
St, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modem contrac. of the syllable est.