The Polyglot Pronouncing Hand-Book

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Excerpt from The Polyglot Pronouncing Hand-Book: A Key to the Correct Pronunciation of Current Geographical and Other Proper Names From Foreign LanguagesIn bespeaking indulgence for the inevitable short-comin gs of his book, the compiler must plead excuses, the full weight of which can be felt only by those who have been engaged in similar work. Even in so thoroughly finished and polished a language as the French he has not had the fortune to find a single grammar that gave the sounds of the language really exhaustive treatment, nor any two whose treatment of them agreed in all points. In the Slavic and other languages of Eastern Europe, as well as in those of other quarters of the world, not only is the unsettled condition of the pronunciation often made worse by the intermingling of distinct races on the same soil, but this double confusion is still worse confounded by the extreme carelessness of translators, through whose trans literation alone do names from these languages commonly come before English-speaking readers. There is no assurance that an English translator, for instance, may not use now English, now French, now German equivalents, and that, not merely in the same volume, but in the same word, and, if the word be long enough, -in the same occurrence of that word. A Russian, translating from the Russian, may feel no obligation to any particular consistency of method in representing the sounds of his mother-tongue. Such considerations, the compiler trusts, may suffice to shield him from too large a share of responsibility for defects in his work, of which he is beforehand well aware, but which, he feels assured, will not prevent its proving a very useful and convenient hand-book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.