204. Words of similar sound:
| canvas (cloth) | principle (rule) |
| canvass (all meanings except cloth) | principal (chief) |
| capitol (a building) | stationary (immovable) |
| capital (all meanings except building) | stationery (articles) |
| counsel (advice or an adviser) | miner (a workman) |
| council (a body of persons) | minor (under age) |
| complement (a completing element) | angel (a spiritual being) |
| compliment (praise) | angle (geometrical) |
205. Miscellaneous words:
| annual | laundry | schedule |
| awkward | leisure | separate |
| beneficial | lenient | Spaniard |
| decimal | license | speak |
| exhilarate | mechanical | specimen |
| familiarize | mediæval | speech |
| fiber | medicine | spherical |
| fibrous | militia | subtle |
| genuine | motor | surely |
| gluey | negotiate | technical |
| height | origin | tenement |
| hideous | pacified | their |
| hundredths | phalanx | therefore |
| hysterical | physique | thinnest |
| icicle | privilege | until |
| irremediable | prodigies | vengeance |
| laboratory | rarefy | visible |
| laid | rinse | wherein |
| larynx | saucer | yielding |
206. The following list is made up of words that are frequently mispronounced. An effort has been made to arrange them in groups according to the most frequent source of error in their pronunciation.
The only marks regularly used are the signs for the long and short sounds of the vowel.
| ā as in hate | ī as in high | ū as in use |
| ă as in hat | ĭ as in hit | ŭ as in run |
| ē as in me | ō as in old | ōō as in boot |
| ĕ as in met | ŏ as in hop | ŏŏ as in foot |
When sounds are not otherwise indicated take the sound that comes most naturally to the tongue.
207. ā as in hate: