54 adjectives to describe pronunciation

"Qui va ?" "C'est moi," I answered, (with a very decent accent which I had cultivated by the daily use of a mild decoction of alum-wateran application which I can cordially recommend to Americans who do not naturally possess that peculiar "pucker" of the lips essential to the correct pronunciation of the French language.) "C'est moi, mon ami," I repeated.

There are several dialects, which chiefly affect the vowels, (like provincial pronunciation;) but in later Greek (to which the New Testament belongs) they were merged in "the common dialect,"

Milton uses the same manner of expression in a few other places of his Paradise Lost, and more frequently in his [smaller] poems, It may, perhaps, be allowed in the comic and burlesque style, which often imitates a vulgar and incorrect pronunciation; but in the serious and solemn style, no authority is sufficient to justify so manifest a solecism.

It is only a new turn given, by a little false pronunciation, to a very common, though not very courteous inquiry.

His friend looks blank; he begins to smell a rat; wind veers about; he acknowledges her good sense, her judgment in dress, a certain simplicity of manners and honesty of heart, something too in her manners which gains upon you after a short acquaintance;and then her accurate pronunciation of the French language, and a pretty, uncultivated taste in drawing.

For the solemn and the familiar pronunciation of ed unquestionably differ.

In strict pronunciation they should have been sounded vice versâbut in those young years they impressed me with more awe than they would now do, read aright from Seneca or Varroin his own peculiar pronunciation, monosyllabically elaborated, or Anglicized, into something like verse verse.

"That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions independent of artful pronunciation."Ib

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"The chin has an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronunciation.

By their being printed in italics in the play of "Marriage à la Mode," Dryden only meant to mark, that Melantha, the affected coquette in whose mouth they are placed, was to use the French, not the vernacular pronunciation.

In the Three Ladies of London, 1584, is the character of an Italian merchant, very strongly marked by foreign pronunciation.

His mere pronunciation of her name gave it a dignity, an importance quite new to Miss Shepperson's ears.

(c) Slow, deliberate pronunciation.

Some of his pronunciations were rather antiquated; but they were the elegant New England pronunciations of his youthful days.

How can we hope to establish a system of elemental pronunciation in a language, when great masters in criticism condemn at once every attempt, in so simple and useful a labour as the correction of its orthography!"P. 256.

To enable a child to read unfamiliar words by spelling them; 2. To show the derivation or composition of words; 3. To exhibit the exact pronunciation of words; 4. To divide words properly, when it is necessary to break them at the ends of lines.

As near as I can recollect, the fashionable pronunciation of the theatrical fruiteresses then was, "Chase some oranges, chase some numparels, chase a bill of the play;"chase pro chuse.

In reading aloud and in speaking, we have need to know it, and faulty pronunciation is considered an indication of lack of culture.

The formal pronunciation of A-h is 'Ah,' of O-h, 'Oh,' but you cannot stereotype the expression of emotion like this.

As to idiomatic pronunciation involving speech-rhythm.

[Footnote 1: An attempt to reproduce Lipochka's illiterate pronunciation of the Russian word.]

It was singular that, although up to that time he had never been able to pronounce the letter with any distinctness, when he first made up his mind in this instance to say it, he enunciated it with perfect clearness, and never again went back to the old, imperfect pronunciation.

Such carelessness not only causes the omission of words grammatically necessary, but brings about the incorrect pronunciation of words and their faulty combination into sentences.

However, where the original has an acute accent over the "e" in a past participle for poetical reasons, I have marked this with a grave accent (as in "learn`ed") to indicate the intended pronunciation.

54 adjectives to describe  pronunciation