Speakers, singers and stammerers / by Frederick Helmore.

  • Helmore, Frederick.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Speakers, singers and stammerers / by Frederick Helmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tabular Arrangement of Letters. Continuous. rartly Continuous and Simply Explosive. Whispering. Sonorous. partly Explosive. .... m b p ■. ■. n d t ch Welsh .... 7 (Greek gamma) or hard g, as in or^i?/ k, «am c, as m cat or ch, as in chaos f V h sh or ch as in chaise j French j English, or j-^/ g, as in or George ch j'l?;?, as in cheese 11 Welsh 1 final r r s, or soft c z th or 6 Greek. th or dd Welsh C, g, and J, are redundant letters. Hard c is the same as k; soft c the same as s. Q is the same as k, but is never used without the letter u coming immediately after it. Qu is equivalent to koo. Qtiick, as far as sound goes, might be written Kooick. y is the same as soft g. ^ is a double letter and equivalent to ks. In English this letter is sounded like z when it begins a word, but in Greek, and in the middle of English words, it is sounded ks (ks.) yp- (Greek psi) is a double letter, and is equivalent to ps (ts.) 6 (Greek theta) is equivalent to the English th as in //««. dd (Welsh) is equivalent to the English th as in the.
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