Excerpt from The Pronunciation of Standard English in AmericaThe professional student of phonetics seems to find it hard to resist the fascination which the game of inventing symbols exerts. The conventional alphabet is obviously inadequate for any scientific purposes, and scores of pho netic alphabets have been invented to take its place. If a phonetic alphabet is an evil, it is a necessary evil. But moderation should be practiced in the exer...
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Excerpt from The Rise of English Literary ProseThis book covers the period of discovery in the history of English literary prose. It begins with the latter half of the fourteenth century, when the writing of prose first assumed importance in the life of the English people, and it ends with the first quarter of the seventeenth century, when practice and experiment had made of English prose, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, a highly develop...
Excerpt from In Oldest EnglandTo-day all we know about the men and women who lived in oldest England we learn from the manuscripts which their scribes wrote. From these writings we know many facts of their time and many things about their manner of living. But we need more than facts, we need imagination to realize fully how people lived a thousand or more years ago. The men and women who dwelt in oldest England were the ancestors of the Engli...
Excerpt from Andreas and the Fates of the Apost: Two Anglo-Saxon Narrative PoemsAlthough editions of the text of Andreas have been made from time to time, no comprehensive treatment of the poem on its various sides of Interest has appeared since Grimm published his Andreas und Elene in 1840. In the meantime our knowledge of the language and the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period has not remained stationary, and a new endeavor to present the ...
Excerpt from The Elements of English GrammarThe author wishes to enter a plea for a certain amount of liberty in the interpretations which students may make of various grammatical constructions. The instances in which legitimate difference of opinion may exist are, it is true, relatively infrequent, yet such instances actually do occur. The student, for example, who analyzes the sen tence We asked for bread as consisting of the subject We, the...
Excerpt from The Authority of Law in Language, Vol. 4It is interesting to observe how the comparatively old science of philology has in this respect attained a solid footing, whereas the relatively new science of sociology is still ¿oundering in the mire of the antiquated theory of the objective existence of or counterpart to mental or psychological activities. In a recent sum mary of the present state of sociological inquiry Professor Gid din...
Excerpt from The Elements of English GrammarThe author wishes to enter a plea for a certain amount of liberty in the interpretations which students may make of various grammatical constructions. The instances in which legitimate difference of opinion may exist are, it is true, relatively infrequent, yet such instances actually do occur. The student, for example, who analyzes the sen tence We asked for bread as consisting of the subject We, the...
Excerpt from The Pronunciation of Standard English in America
Wanna one thinks this should or should not be so, it is a fact that most cultivated persons in America nowa days, and an increasing number in England, are more or less self-conscious about their speech. The present very general interest in the practical applications of the science of phonetics is one of the proofs of the truth of this state ment. With our strange mingling of races,...
