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Excerpt from A History of English Sounds, From the Earliest Period, Including an Investigation of the General Laws of Sound Change, and Full Word Lists
In Mr. Sweet's volume, now in the reader's hands, the corresponding table of vowel - sounds is given at page 5, and one principal object of this short Preface is to shew how Mr. Sweet's symbols and the 'glossic' symbols agree together, and how, again, each table agrees with that of Mr. Bell.
I shall refer, then, to the three tables as given at p. 5 of Mr. Sweet's book, at p. 11 of the Glossic tract, and at p. 8 of Visible Speech for the Million. See also p. 14 of Mr. Ellis's Early English Pronunciation.
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