A Handbook of the English Language

by R. G. Latham

[§ 111]. Concerning the vowels, we may predicate a) that they are all continuous, b) that they are all flat.

Concerning the liquids, we may predicate a) that they are all continuous, b) that they are all flat.

Concerning the mutes, we may predicate a) that one half of them is flat, and the other half sharp, and b) that some are continuous, and that others are explosive.

[§ 112].—The letter h is no articulate sound, but only a breathing.

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CHAPTER II.

SYSTEM OF ARTICULATE SOUNDS.

[§ 113].—The attention of the reader is now directed to the following foreign vowel sounds.

1. The é fermé, of the French.—This is a sound allied to, but different from, the a in fate, and the ee in feet. It is intermediate to the two.