The alphabetic, whereby children were taught the letter names and then memorised the spelling of each single word, has no supporters.

In common with the Babylonians they used the same alphabetic system, though their languages were unlike,namely, the cuneiform or arrow-head or wedge-shaped characters, as seen in the celebrated inscriptions of Darius on the side of a high rock thirty feet from the ground.

This work contains many literal citations of and references to foreign words, sounds, and alphabetic symbols drawn from many languages, including Gothic and Phoenician, but chiefly Latin and Greek.

Some such exotic parsing as this is necessary to explain alphabetic development because a single symbol may have been used for a number of sounds in a number of languages, or even for a number of sounds in the same language at different times.

When you first saw the instrument in 1836 this was so obvious that it scarcely excited more than a passing remark, but, after the adaptation of the dot and space, with the addition of the line or dash, in forming the alphabetic signs (which, as well as I can remember, was about the same date, late in 1835 or early in 1836)

Yet, alphabetic script is used only in cases in which illiterate adults have to be enabled in a short time to read very simple informations.

Analytic Orthography; an Investigation of the Sounds of the Voice, and their Alphabetic Notation; including the Mechanism of Speech, and its Bearing upon Etymology.

A Letter is an alphabetic character, which commonly represents some elementary sound of the human voice, some element of speech.

Nay, there can be found a hundred men who can readily write the alphabetic names which were in use two or three thousand years ago in Greece or Palestine, for one who can do the same thing with propriety, respecting those which we now employ so constantly in English: and yet the words themselves are as familiar to every school-boy's lips as are the characters to his eye.

We must therefore content ourselves to learn languages as they are, and to make the best use we can of our present imperfect system of alphabetic characters; and we may be the better satisfied to do this, because the deficiencies and redundancies of this alphabet are not yet so well ascertained, as to make it certain what a perfect one would be. OBS.

Syllabic writing is represented by Dr. Blair as a great improvement upon the Chinese method, and yet as being far inferior to that which is properly alphabetic, like ours.

," says Dr. Rush, "was long ago analyzed into its alphabetic elements.

Again, of "the pronunciation of the alphabetic elements," he says, "The least deviation from the assumed standard converts the listener into the critic; and I am surely speaking within bounds when I say, that for every miscalled element in discourse, ten succeeding words are lost to the greater part of an audience.

"The deficiencies, redundancies, and confusion, of the system of alphabetic characters in this language, prevent the adoption of its subdivisions in this essay."Ib., p. 52.

Again: "I deprecate noticing the faults of speakers, in the pronunciation of the alphabetic elements.

and how shall he who knows not what and how many they are, think himself capable of reforming our system of their alphabetic signs?

One may, in this way, make out a scheme of the alphabetic elements, which shall be true of his own pronunciation, and yet have obvious faults when tried by the best usage of English speech.

The consonant w, which he conceived to be always a vowel, and equivalent to oo; 7. The consonant y, which he made equal to a short ee; 8. The consonant h, which he declared to be no letter, but a mere breathing, In all other respects, his scheme of the alphabetic elements agrees with that which is adopted in this work, and which is now most commonly taught. OBS.

After a brief abstract of the old rules of George Fabricius concerning quantity and accent, it exhibits, in alphabetic order, and with all their syllables marked, about twenty-eight thousand words, with a poetic line quoted against each, to prove the pronunciation just.

There were inscriptions on the panels of the singing-gallery, telling of benefactions to the poor of Shepperton, with an involuted elegance of capitals and final flourishes which my alphabetic erudition traced with ever-new delight.

BARKER, HOWARD F. Remington Rand standard alphabetic captions.

Theodore Roosevelt III, Grace R. McMillan & Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt (C); 4Dec64; R350495. LOOMIS, MADELEINE S. Alphabetic list of contractions used in grade one and a half braille.

Alphabetic list of contractions used in grade one and a half braille.

Theodore Roosevelt III, Grace R. McMillan & Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt (C); 4Dec64; R350495. LOOMIS, MADELEINE S. Alphabetic list of contractions used in grade one and a half braille.

Alphabetic list of contractions used in grade one and a half braille.