National Elementary Speller

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Excerpt from National Elementary Speller: A Critical Work on Pronunciation, Embracing a Strictly Graded Classification of the Primitive, and the More Important Derivative Words of the English Language, for Oral Spelling, Exercises for Writing From Dictation, Prefixes, Affixes, &C, , &C, The constantly increasing demand, among the most experienced and successful educators, for a small, comprehensive text-book, adapted to the wants of Public Schools and the lower classes in Academies and Seminaries, which shall furnish the most approved methods of teaching Orthography and Orthoepy, has induced us to devote several months to the preparation of this little volume. The following facts, which are now so generally recognized, have determined its form and arrangement: That the most expeditious mode of learning Spelling is by the eye, that the definitions and the use of words, as well as their orthography, are soonest acquired by frequently writing Exercises from dictation, that, by a thorough classification, the Spelling and Pronunciation of extended lists of words may be learned with nearly the same facility as of separate ones, and that Orthoepy and Orthography should be simultaneously taught. Consistently with these views, the words presented are strictly classified with regard to their formation, vowel sounds, alphabetic equivalents, accent, and number of syllables, and, by the use of numbered vowels and marked consonants, a list of which will be found on each leaf, their exact pronunciation is invariably given. The monosyllables are first introduced, commencing with the three words of one letter, in accordance with our well-known system of word-building, and these are followed by dissyllables, trisyllables, and polysyllables. So carefully has the orthoepical department been prepared, that the omission of silent letters, which appear in italics, renders this a purely phonetic Spelling-book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.