307. “My beard is long:” don’t say baird.
308. “The blacksmith blows the bellows:” pronounce as written, and not bellus.
309. “Let me help you to some catsup:” avoid saying ketchup.
310. “It is new China ware:” do not say, chaney ware; this latter article exists only in the traditions of old women.
311. “The combatants parted in good humor:” accent the first syllable—never the second.
312. “We poled the raft up the creek:” pronounce as if written krik.
313. “Then spake the warrior bold:” pronounce in two syllables, as war-yur, not war-ri-or.
314. In using the word venison, sound the i: venzun is a common, though not elegant pronunciation.
315. Tapestry is divided tap-es-try and not ta-pes-try.
316. “He is only a subaltern:” accent the first syllable of subaltern.