CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOGRAPHY.
From among those words which are often erroneously spelled, the following are selected and corrected according to Johnson, and to Cobb's Dictionary.
| INCORRECT. | CORRECT. |
| Abridgement | Abridgment |
| abscision | abcission |
| achievment | achievement |
| adze | addice |
| agriculturalist | agriculturist |
| ancle | ankle |
| attornies | attorneys |
| baise | baize |
| bason | basin |
| bass | base |
| bombazin | bombasin |
| boose | bouse |
| boult | bolt |
| buccaneer | bucanier |
| burthen | burden |
| bye | by |
| calimanco | calamanco |
| camblet | camlet |
| camphire | camphor |
| canvas | canvass |
| carcase | carcass |
| centinel | sentinel |
| chace | chase |
| chalibeate | chalybeate |
| chamelion | chameleon |
| chimist | chemist |
| chimistry | chemistry |
| cholic | colic |
| chuse | choose |
| cimetar | cimeter |
| clench | clinch |
| cloke | cloak |
| cobler | cobbler |
| chimnies | chimneys |
| chesnut | chestnut |
| clue | clew |
| connection | connexion |
| corset | corslet |
| cypher | cipher |
| cyphering | ciphering |
| dactyl | dactyle |
| develope | develop |
| dipthong | diphthong |
| dispatch | despatch |
| doat | dote |
| drouth | drought |
| embitter | imbitter |
| embody | imbody |
| enquire | inquire |
| enquirer | inquirer |
| enquiry | inquiry |
| ensnare | insnare |
| enterprize | enterprise |
| enthral | inthrall |
| entrench | intrench |
| entrenchment | intrenchment |
| entrust | intrust |
| enwrap | inwrap |
| epaulette | epaulet |
| etherial | ethereal |
| faggot | fagot |
| fasset | faucet |
| fellon | felon |
| fie | fy |
| germ | germe |
| goslin | gosling |
| gimblet | gimlet |
| grey | gray |
| halloe | halloo |
| highth | height |
| hindrance | hinderance |
| honied | honeyed |
| impale | empale |
| inclose | enclose |
| inclosure | enclosure |
| indict | endict |
| indictment | endictment |
| indorse | endorse |
| indorsement | endorsement |
| instructor | instructer |
| insure | ensure |
| insurance | ensurance |
| judgement | judgment |
| laquey | lackey |
| laste | last |
| licence | license |
| loth | loath |
| lothsome | loathsome |
| malcontent | malecontent |
| maneuver | manoeuvre |
| merchandize | merchandise |
| misprison | misprision |
| monies | moneys |
| monied | moneyed |
| negociate | negotiate |
| negociation | negotiation |
| noviciate | novitiate |
| ouse | ooze |
| opake | opaque |
| paroxism | paroxysm |
| partizan | partisan |
| patronize | patronise |
| phrenzy | phrensy |
| pinchers | pincers |
| plow | plough |
| poney | pony |
| potatoe | potato |
| quere | query |
| recognize | recognise |
| reindeer | raindeer |
| reinforce | re-enforce |
| restive | restiff |
| ribbon | riband |
| rince | rinse |
| sadler | saddler |
| sallad | salad |
| sceptic | skeptic |
| sceptical | skeptical |
| scepticism | skepticism |
| segar | cigar |
| seignor | seignior |
| serjeant | sergeant |
| shoar | shore |
| soothe | sooth |
| staunch | stanch |
| streight | straight |
| suitor | suiter |
| sythe | scythe |
| tatler | tattler |
| thresh | thrash |
| thwak | thwack |
| tipler | tippler |
| tranquility | tranquillity |
| tripthong | triphthong |
| trissyllable | trisyllable |
| valice | valise |
| vallies | valleys |
| vise | vice |
| vollies | volleys |
| waggon | wagon |
| warrantee | warranty |
| whoopingcough | hoopingcough |
| woe | wo |
| yeast | yest |
CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOEPY.
The following words being often erroneously pronounced by polite people, as well as by the vulgar, their correction, in this place, agreeably to Cobb's Dictionary, it is presumed, will be useful to many. Some of the mispronunciations given are provincial.
1 2 3 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 5
Fate, far, fall, fat--me, met--pine, pin--no, nor, not,
6 1 4 7 34 37
move--tube, tub, bull--oil--found---thin--THIS,
ORTHOGRAPHY. IMPROPER. PRONOUNCED.
4 1 4 4
Again a-gane' a-gen'
4 1 4 4
Against a-ganste' a-genst
4 1 4 1
Ally al'le al'li'
1 2
Are are ar
4 4 1 1
Azure azh'ur a'zhure
1 1
Bade bade bad
1 11
Beard bard beerd
4 11 4
Been ben or been bin
22 11
Bleat blaat bleet
1 34
Boil bile boil
4 4 5 4
Bonnet bun'net bon'nit
2 66
Brooch brotsh brootsh
4 3 4 4
Canal ka-nawl' ka-nal'
4 4
Catch ketsh katsh
4 1 3 1
Causeway kros'wa kawz'wa
4 4 1 4
Chalice kal'is tshal'is
4 1
Chasten tshas'tn tshase'sn
4 1 4 1
Chimney tshim'ble tshim'ne
3 1
Chine tshime tshine
34 1
Choir koir kwire
4 4 1 1
Clevy klev'is klev've
4 4
Clinch klensh klinsh
5 4 5 4
Column kol'yum kol'lum
5 4 4 4
Combat kom'bat kum'bat
5 1 5 4
Comma kom'me kom'ma
1 4 3 4
Coquet ko-kwet' ko-ket'
3 1
Corps korps kore
4 4 4 4
Cover kiv'ur kuv'ur
11 4
Deaf deef def
1 4 4 1 1 4
Decisive de-sis'iv de-si'siv
1 5 1 1
Depot de'pot de-po'
4 1 1 1 1
Depute dep'u-tize de-pute'
4 1 1 1 1 4
Deputed dep'u-tizd de-pu'ted
1 1 1 1
Design de-zine' de-sine'
4 4
Dint dent dint
1 5 4
Docile do'slle dos'sil
4 4 4 4
Disgust dis-gust' diz-gust'
4 1 4 1
Dismay dis-ma' diz-ma'
4 1 4 1
Disown dis-one' diz-one'
1 4
Dost dost dust
1 4
Doth doth duth 66 4
Does dooz duz
11 1
Drain dreen drane
37 37
Drought drouth drout
37 4 37
Drowned dround'ed dround
4 1 4 4
Ductile duk'tile duk'til
1 4
Edge aje edje
1 1 4
Either i'THur e'THur
4 4 4 4
English eng'lish ing'glish
1 1 1 1
Era e're e'ra
1 1
Ere ere are
1 4
Fasten fas'tn fas'sn
4 7 11 7
Fearful fer'ful feer'ful
4 4 4 1
Figure fig'gur fig'ure
4 11
Fiend fend feend
4 4
First fust furst
34 1 1 1 1
Foliage foil'aje fo'le-aje
3 4 3 1
Fortune for'tshun for'tshune
3 4 3 1
Fortnight fort'nit fort'nite
37 37 4
Fountain foun'tn foun'tin
4 4 4 1
Fracture frak'tshur frak'tshure
1 4 1 4
Fragrance frag'ranse fra'granse
1 1 1 4
Futile fu'tile fu'til
4 4 4 4
Gather geTH'ur gaTH'ur
4 4
Get git get
4 4
Girth gurt gerth 66 1
Goal gool gole
1 1 4 1 4
Going gone or go'in go'ing
66 1
Gold goold gold
66 4
Gum goom gum
1 4 4
Grudge be-gretsh' grudje
4 4 4 4
Gypsum gip'sum jip'sum
4 4
Has hez haz
1 4
Have have hav
11 4
Heard heerd herd
4 4 2
Hearth hurth or hath harth 4 4
Hiss siss hiss
1 34
Hoist histe hoist
4 1 1 1
Homely hum'ble home'le
4 66
Hoof huf hoof
3 4 5 4
Hostler haws'lur os'lur
4 4
Humble hum'bl um'bl
11 4 4 4
Jesting jeest'in jest'ing
4 4
Kettle kit'tl ket'tl
4 4 4 1
Lecture lek'tshur lek'tshure
4 4 1 1
Leisure lezh'ur le'zhure
4 4 1 4
Lever lev'er le'vur
4 4
Lid led lid
1 5 1 4
Lilach la'lok li'lak
66 1
Loam loom lome
1 66
Loo lu loo
1 1 4 1
Maintain mane-tane' men-tane'
1 4 1 4
Matron mat'run ma'trun
1 1 4 1
Mermaid mare'made mer'made
37 37
Mountain moun'tn moun'tin
1 4 1 1
Nature na'tshur na'tshure
1 4 1 4
Neither ni'THur ne'THur
1 11 1 1
Oblige o-bleeje' o-blije'
1 11 5 1
Oblique o-bleek' ob-like'
5 5
Of of ov
1 34
Oil ile oil
5 4 1 1 1
Only on'le or un'le one'le
1 4 4 4
Panther pane'tur pan'thur
4 4 1 4
Parent par'ent pa'rent
2 4 2 4
Partner pard'nur part'nur
2 4 4 1
Pasture pas'tshur pas'tshure
4 4 1 4
Patron pat'run pa'trun
4 4 4 4
Pincers pinsh'urz pin'surz
4 4
Pith peth pith 11 1
Plait pleet plate
1 1 4
Poem pome po'em
1 34
Point pinte point
5 4 4
Pother poTH'ur puTH'ur
4 4 1 4
Precept pres'sept pre'sept
1 1 4 4
Preface pre'fase pref'fas
1 1 4 1
Prelude pre'lude prel'ude
1 4 5 4
Process pro'ses pros'ses
1 4 5 4
Product pro'dukt prod'ukt
1 4 5 4
Progress pro'gres prog'res
1 1 1 11
Profile pro'file pro-feel'
4 4 4 4
Pumpion pungk'in pump'yun
4 7
Put put (verb) put
1 34
Quoit kwate kwoit
1 1 4 1
Rapine ra'pine rap'in
1 11
Rear rare reer
4 1 4 4
Reptile rep'tile rep'til
4 4
Rid red rid
1 1
Rind rine rind
4 4
Rinse rense rinse
5 4 5 4
Rosin roz'um roz'in
87 1 66 11
Routine rou tene roo-teen'
4 66
Roof ruff roof
4 4 1 4
Sacred sak'red sa'kred
1 4
Said sade sed
4 4
Sat set sat
1 4
Says saze sez
2 1
Scarce skarse skarse
4 1 4 1
Schedule sked'ule sed'jule
4 4
Shut shet shut
4 4
Since sense sinse
4 11
Sleek slik sleek
4 4 1 4
Sliver sliv'vur sli'vur
3 7 1 7
Slothful slawth'ful sloth'ful
4 66
Soot sut soot
4 4 1 2
Spikenard spig'nut spike'nard
1 34
Spoil spile spoil
4 4 11 2
Steelyard stil'yurdz steel'yard
5 4
Stamp stomp stamp
4 4
Stint stent stint
1 1
Sword sword sord
1 5 4 4
Synod si'nod sin'ud
1 1 4 1
Therefore THare'fore THer'fore
4 4
Thill fil thil
1 66
To to too
37 66
Tour tour toor
4 4
Treble trib'bl treb'bl
1 3 1 4
Towards to-wardz' to'urdz
5 1 1 1
Trophy trof'fe tro'fe
1 1 1 1
Tuesday tshuz'de tuze'de
4 4 4 1
Verdure vur'jur ver'jure
1 4 4 11
Vizier vi'zhur viz'yeer
5 4 5 1
Volume vol'lum vol'yume
1 4
Were ware wer
1 1
Yea ya ye
4 4
Yes yes yis
11 33 4
Yest yeest or eest yest
4 4
Yet yit yet
1 66
You yu yoo
1 66
Your yure yoor
1 66
Youth yuth yooth 1 4 1 4 1 1 1 4
Ague and fever fe'vurn-a'gur a'gu-and fe'vur
3 4 1 4 4 1
Alternate awl-ter'nate al-ter'nate
4 4 1 4 4 1 1
Annunciate an-nun'shate an-nun'she-ate
4 1 4 4 1 4
Andiron hand'i-urn and'i-urn
4 1 1 4 4 1 11
Antipodes an'te-podz an-tip'o-deez
4 4 4 4 1 4
Apparent ap-par'ent ap-pa'rent
2 1 4 4 2 3 4 1
Architecture artsh'e-tek-tshur ar'-ke-tek-tshure
4 4 4 4 4 4
Assumption as-sump'shun as-sum'shun
3 4 4 1 3 4 4 1
Auxiliary awks-il'a-re awg-zil'ya-re
4 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1
Certiorari sash-ur-ar'ur ser-she-o-ra'ri
4 4 1 1 4 1 4 1 1
Christianity kris-tshan'e-te kris-tshe-an'e-te
4 4 1 4 4 4
Clandestine klan-des'tine klan-des'tin
1 4 1 4 1 4 1 4
Coadjutor ko-ad'ju-tur ko-ad-ju'tur
5 4 1 4 5 4 1 4
Compendium kom-pen'de-um kom-pen'je-um
5 4 1 1 4 1
Connoisseur kon-nis-sure' ko-nes-sare'
1 1 4 4 1 4
Courteous kore'te-us kur'tshe-us
4 4 4 4 4 4
Coverlet kuv'ur-lid kuv'ur-let
37 4 1 37 4 4
Cowardice kou'urd-ise kou'urd-is
1 4 4 1 4 4
Decrepit de-krip'id de-krep'it
4 5 1 1 5 1
Demonstrate dem'on-strate de-mon'strate
1 4 4 4 4 1 4 1 1 4
Desideratum de-sid-er-at'um de-sid-e-ra'tum
1 4 1 1 4
Diamond di'mund di'a-mund
4 4 4 1 4 1 4
Discrepance dis-krep'an-se dis'kre-panse
4 4 1 4 4 4
Disfranchise dis-fran'tschize dis-fran'tschiz
4 5 4 4 5 4
Dishonest dis-on'est diz-on'est
4 3 4 4 3 4
Disorder dis-or'dur diz-or'dur
1 4 4 1 1 4 1 1
Electrify e-lek'tur-ize e-lek'tre-fi
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Emaciate e-ma'shate e-ma'she-ate
4 1 1 4 1 1 1
Expatiate eks-pa'shate eks-pa'she-ate
4 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 1
Expiatory eks-pi'a-to-re eks'pe-a-tur-re
4 4 1 4 4 1 1
Extempore eks-tem'pore eks-tem'po-re
4 1 1 4 1 4
Feminine fem'e-nine fem'e-nin
4 4 1 1 4 1
Frequently frek'went-le fre'kwent-le
4 1 1 4 1 4
Genuine jen'u-ine jen'u-in
2 11 2 1 4
Guardian gar-deen' gyar'de-an
4 4 4 4 4 4
Gymnastic gim-nas'tik jim-nas'tik
4 1 1 4 4 1 66 4
Hallelujah hal-le-lu'ja hal-le-loo'ya
5 4 4 5 3 4
Hospital hos'pit-al os'pe-tal
1 4 4 1 4 4
Humorous hu'mur-us yu'mur-us
1 1 1 1 4
Idea i-de' i-de'a
4 1 4 4 4 1 3 4
Ignoramus ig-no-ram'us ig-no-ra'mus
4 4 1 4 4 1 1 4
Indecorous in-dek'o-rus in-de-ko'rus
4 4 1 1 4 1 1 1
Irradiate ir-rad'e-ate ir-ra'de-ate
4 4 4 1 4 4 1 1
Literati lit-er-at'i lit-er-a'ti
1 1 4 4 1 4
Maintenance mane-tane'anse men-'te-nanse
4 1 1 4 1 4
Masculine mas'ku-line mas'ku-lin
4 4 1
mur'kan-tile }
4 4 11 } 4 4 4
Mercantile mur-kan-teel'} mer'kan-til
4 4 4 }
mur-kan'til }
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Meliorate me-li'o-rate me'le-o-rate
1 4 1 4 5 4 1 4
Molestation mo-les-ta'shun mol-es-ta'shun
1 1 4 1 1 4
Museum mu'ze-um mu-ze'um
1 4 4 4 4 4
National na'shun-al nash'un-al
1 4 4 1 5 4 1 1
Nomenclature no-men'kla-ture nom-en-kla'tshure
5 1 4 5 1 4 4
Nominative nom'e-tiv nom'e-na-tiv
5 5 1 4 5 4 4 4
Obstreperous ob-strop'pu-lus ob-strep'er-us
5 2 1 5 1 1
Octavo ok-ta'vo ok-ta'vo
5 1 1 1 5 4 4 1
Oratory or'a-to-re or'a-tur-re
1 4 1 4 4 1
Parentage pa'rent-aje par'ent-aje
2 4 1 1 2 1 4 1 1
Partiality par-shal'le-te par-she-al'le-te
1 4 1 4 4 4
Patronage pa'trun-aje pat'run-ije
4 1 2 1 1 2
Patriarch pat're-ark pa'tre-ark
4 1 4 1 1 4
Patriot pat're-ut pa'tre-ut
4 1 4 4 1 1 4 4
Patriotism pat're-ut-izm pa'tre-ut-izm
1 5 1 4 1 5 1 4
Philologist fi-lol'lo-jist fe-lol'lo-jist
1 5 1 1 1 5 1 1
Philosophy fi-los'o-fe fe-los'o-fe
1 1 5 1 4 4 1 5 1 4
Philosophical fi-lo-sof'ik-al fil-o-zof'e-kal
1 4 4 1 4 4
Plagiarism pla'ga-rizm pla'ja-rizm
5 4 5 4
Possess pos-ses' poz-zes'
5 4 1 5 4 1
Possessive pos-ses'siv poz-zes'siv
5 4 4 5 4 4
Possession pos-sesh'un poz-zesh'un
1 4 4 4 1 4 4
Preventive pre-vent'a-tiv pre-vent'iv
1 4 1 1 4 1 4 1 1 4
Pronunciation pro-nun-se-a'shun pro-nun-she-a'shun
1 4 1 1 4 1 4 1 1 4
Propitiation pro-pis-e-a'shun pro-pish-e-a'shun
5 1 1 5 1 1
Prophecy prov'e-si (noun) prof'e-se (noun)
5 1 1 5 1 5
Prophesy prov'e-si (verb) prof'e-si (verb)
1 1 1 1 1
Ratio ra'sho ra'she-o
1 4 4 4 4 4
Rational ra'shun-al rash'un-al
1 4 4 1 4 4
Sacrament sa'kra-ment sak'ra-ment
1 1 1 4 1 1
Sacrifice sa'kre-fize, sak're-fize
4
or (fis)
4 1 1 1 1 1 1
Stereotype ster'o-tipe ste're-o-tipe
1 4 1 4 1 4 4
Stupendous stu-pen'du-us, stu-pen'dus
1 4
stu-pen'jus
1 5 1 1 4 1 4
Synonyme se-non'e-me sin'o-nim
4 4 4 4 1 4
Transparent trans-par'ent trans-pa'rent
4 4 4 1 4 1 4 1
Transparency trans-par'en-se trans-pa'ren-se
1 4 1 4 1 4 4
Tremendous tre-men'du-us, tre-men'dus
1 4 1
tre-men'jus
4 4 4 4 1 4
Verbatim ver-bat'im ver-ba'tim
5 2 1 5 1 1
Volcano vol-ka'no vol-ka'no
4 1 4 11
Whiffletree hwip'pl-tre hwif'fl-tree
NOTE 1.—When the words learned, blessed, loved, &c. are used as participial adjectives, the termination ed should generally be pronounced as a separate syllable; as, "A learn-ed man; The bless-ed Redeemer;" but when they are employed as verbs, the ed is contracted in pronunciation; as, "He learn'd his lesson; They are lov'd; I have walk'd."
2. The accent of the following words falls on those syllables expressed in the italic characters: Eu ro pe an, hy me ne al, Ce sa re a, co ad ju tor, ep i cu re an, in ter est ed, in ter est ing, rep a ra ble, rec og nise, leg is la ture, ob li ga to ry, in com pa ra ble, ir rep a ra ble, in ex o ra ble. In a large class of words, the vowels a, e, and ai, should be pronounced like long a in late; such as, fare, rare, there, their, where, air, chair, compare, declare, &c. In the words person, perfect, mercy, interpret, determine, and the like, the vowel e before r, is often erroneously sounded like short u. Its proper sound is that of e in met, pet, imperative.
3. With respect to the pronunciation of the words sky, kind, guide, &c. it appears that a mistake extensively prevails. It is believed that their common pronunciation by the vulgar, is the correct one, and agreeable to the pronunciation intended by Mr. John Walker. The proper diphthongal sounds in
11 1 1
skei, kyind, gyide,