APPENDIX I
Exercises.
1. How is -ious pronounced in gracious, bilious, victorious?
2. How is -ion pronounced in motion, onion, criterion, vision, and Ionian?
3. How is -ial pronounced in labial, judicial, martial, partiality?
4. What difference in pronunciation, if any, do you make between hire and higher, lyre and liar, cure and (s)kewer, alms and arms?
5. Consider the value of oar in roar and in roaring, and the value of air in pair and in pairing.
6. Determine the vowel sounds corresponding to the italicized letters in child, children; woman, women; read (infinitive), read (past participle); say, says; dream, dreamed; leap, leaped; hear, heard; can, can't; do, don't; gentleman, gentlemen.
7. Write in transcript the words italicized:
a. I have learned much from this learned man.