We’re focused on translating potential into promise for those who need it most. Inspiration Breakthrough cancer treatments often begin with a spark of insight, but your patients are the true inspiration for what we do. TH, th, soft, flat, or vocal THIS, THEE, THEN.28 EORTC – NCI – AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 29 November – 2 December 2016 Munich, Germany Abstract Book ~, ~, soft or flat, like GZ EI AMPLE, EYIST. CONTROVERSIAL.ĬH (unmarked) like TSH CHARM, CHURCH. I slight or obscure ELIXIR, RUIN, ABILITY. I short and obtuse SIR, FIR, BIRD, VIRTUE. A slight or obscure LIAR, PALACE, ABBACY.ġ. 394ĪBBREVIATIONS USED IN WRITING AND PRINTING. Pronunciation of several European Languages. PRONUNCIATION OF MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. VOCABULARY OF GREEK AND LATIN PROPER NAMES.319 PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK AND LATIN PROPER NAMES. WORDS AND PHRASES FROM FOREIGN LANGUAGES. VOCABULARY OF WORDS OF DOUBTFUL OR VARIOUS ORTHOGRAPHY. Sounds of the Diphthongs and Triphthongs. Key to the Sounds of the Marked Letters.7. State, will be found better adapted than heretofore to the use for Or the prevailing and best usage of this country, have been avoidedĪs corruptions of the language. Innovations which have no sanction from English usage, Which is supported',by the best usage in the United States and inĮngland. With respect to orthography, the purpose has been to give that Great care has been taken to give the pronunciation of the common words of the language, and also of the proper names contained in the several vocabularies, in accordance with the best In the volume, will, it is believed, render it a work well adapted toĪctive or transitive, and neuter or intransitive verbs are distinguished, irregular verbs are conjugated, and the plural forms of Language, which, together with the several vocabularies comprised But notwithstanding these omissions, it contains a veryįull vocabu~lary of the common and well-authorized words of the Of many technical terms, and of some words from foreign languages. Omission of most of such words as are obsolete or very rarely used, Synonymes, and the various modes of pronunciation of words differently pronounced with their authorities annexed, and by the present size byĪbridging a part of the deninitions, by not retaining the notices of This work is substantially a reduced form of the " Comprehensive Dictionary," and it has been brought to its. It may tend rather to embarrass than assist such pupils as are little Value of the work for teachers and the more advanced scholars, yet With respect to words variously pronounced, adds much to the Relation to which a more select vocabulary is preferable andĪlthough the method adopted in the 1" Comprehensive Dictionary," Modes in which they are pronounced by all the most eminentĮnglish orthoepists are exhibited, with the respective authoritiesĪnnexed and it also contains a notice of the p'rincipal synonymesīut a Dictionary is used, in common schools, for purposes in Words'of various, doubtful, or disputed pronunciation, the different Languages as are often found in English books and with respect to Sciences, and a considerable number of such words from foreign Occurrence, numerous technical terms used in the various arts and Vocabulary of common English words, but also many words of rare Of the English Language," a work designed for- the use of schools,Īcademies, families, and individuals, contains not only a very full The " Comprehensive, Pronouncing, and Explanatory Dictionary Many impressions of it have since been issued and it has nowīeen carefully revised, and considerably enlarged. Tins Dictionary was first stereotyped and published in 1835 In the Clerk's Office of the District Joaurt of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
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