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An Outline of English Speech-craft

Chapter 64: Transcriber's Note
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This work presents a practical, speech-centered grammar aimed at teaching English through spoken forms rather than orthography. It develops a phonetic framework—free breathings and breath-pennings—for vowels and consonants, reframes grammatical categories by treating time-words (tenses) as strong or weak and case as the situation a thing falls into with time, and treats prepositions and postpositions as case-markers. It advocates English-based terminology, explores parts of speech, participles, helping verbs, word-formation, and word-endings, and urges the recovery of older Anglo-Saxon and dialect vocabulary to enrich teaching and expression.

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Footnotes

[1] ‘Enaid yr ymadrod yw’r ferf.’

[2] See Table of Sounds, p. 1.

[3] From cuðe.

[4] The Welsh shows the source of this word in gair, a word; gair-ol, wordy.

[5] The words of the latter row are not shapen, at once, from those of the first one. Such of the first as are not roots in -ing are fellow stems to the others. As, stem from the root sting, to be more or less stiff or steadfast: sting, a stang, a stake, a stick. Steg-me (Gr. stigma), stegm (stem). Stem is not from stick, but from the root.

[6] In Welsh avon, a river, is from a time-word meaning to go on.

‘Mi av i’r avon vawr rhag llosgi.’
(I will go into the great river ere I be burned.)
Welsh Song.

Transcriber's Note

The Heads of Matter does not correspond directly to the headings in the text.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

  • p. vii "Transitive" changed to "Transitive 15"
  • p. 4 "and Smallness" changed to "and Smallness."
  • p. 5 "bottle (of hay)" changed to "bottle (of hay)."
  • p. 5 "wants name-shapes" changed to "wants name-shapes."
  • p. 6 "in Tale" changed to "in Tale."
  • p. 6 "ien" changed to "ien."
  • p. 12 "cries)" changed to "cries"
  • p. 25 "consist" changed to "Consist"
  • p. 84 "Half-Pennings" changed to "Half-Pennings."
  • Catalogue p. 1 "Dutch Republic." changed to "Dutch Republic.”"
  • Catalogue p. 29 "Ice and and Glaciers." changed to "Ice and Glaciers."

Many punctuation errors in the catalogue have been left unchanged. In addition, the following possible errors have been left as printed:

  • p. 61 omen (p. 61).
  • p. 61 A word-list or word-list
  • p. 75 Pronoun Adjective, mark-word.
  • Catalogue p. 15 "Crown 8vo. Cloth, price" was printed with no price.

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

  • Ben-nebat and Ben-Nebat
  • folkspeech and folk-speech
  • linkword and link-word
  • markword and mark-word
  • speechcraft and speech-craft
  • Speechlore and Speech-lore