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90% answered — Recommended — Has been an officer in the U.S. Army- Primary Questions 1. William D Anderson: age 27; New Orleans La. 2. Attendance at Schools in Ireland and Canada and home study 3. Yes; from 1858 to '63 in Canada West nearly five years. 4. None, except what I gained by experience and from Authors on the subject 5, Orthoepy is the proper pronunciation of words. 6 A letter is the least part of a word: or it is a mark or character used to present an articulate sound. 7 There are twenty six characters, and about forty three sounds 8 A diphthong is the union of two sounds in one sound as "oa" in boat. a triphthong of three as "ean" in bean, a digraph of two letters, a trigraph of three. 10. A syllable is as much of a word as can be sounded at once, with one effort of the voice as "mat" in matter, a monosyllable a word of one syllable as "mad," a dissyllable of two as "matter," a trisyllable of tree as "artistic" a polysyllable of four or more as "artistically" 11. A word is the sign of an idea. it is primitive when it cannot be reduced to a simpler word in the language as: man. derivitave when it is formed from a primitive by prefixing or affixing a syllable, as "manful" "woman" & compound when composed of two or more words joined as "hatcase" 12. There are numerous rules, some of which are: as a general rule "y" when its place may be supplied by "i" is not to be written except at the end of a word: words ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when an additional syllable is added beginning with a vowel as hat - hatter, beg - begging &c &c. 13. A proper modulation of the voice distinct articulation. attention to punctuation proper pronunciation, emphasis in the proper place, generally to strive to acquire the idea of the writer in which case the reading must necessarily be correct. 14. Articulation literally means the disjointing of words, or dividing a word into its primary elements. 15. Accent is a particular stress laid on a syllable in a word, emphasis on a word or a sentence.
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