Excerpt from A Handbook of Phonetics: Including a Popular Exposition of the Principles of Spelling Reform

The results of German phonetic investigation were first popularised in England by Professor Max Muller in the second series of his well-known Let/ares on Lan guage who also made use of various essays by our countryman Mr. A. J. Ellis - the pioneer of scientific phonetics in England.

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