Russell's American Elocutionist Author:William Russell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pretonan clarion criterion, centurion superior inferior anterior material imperial, memorial armorial. sm, Im, rm. Sometimes articulated in an awkward man... more »ner, which allows a sound like that of u in up, to drop in between m and the letter which precedes it; thus, Patriotisiim, for patriotism. Criticism exorcism, phantasm spasm, chasm witticism, fanaticism helm, whelm elm, overwhelm worm, arm alarm, harm disarm. COMMON ERRORS EXEMPLIFIED IN PHRASES. The importance of exemplifying current errors in phrases or sentences, arises from the fact, with which teachers are familiar, that a word placed separately, on a column or a list, becomes necessarily so conspicuous as to be more attentively observed and correctly pronounced ; while the same word, merged in the body of a phrase, is apt to escape the attention, and to be pronounced incorrectly. I saw (sawr) a man who told me all things that ever I did. I have no idea of (idear of) what is meant. He will sail for Cuba (Cubar) in a few days. We were at that time speaking of (speakin') your brother. He had violated the law of (lawr of) the land. There were several (sev'ral) rare books in his collection. They were every (ev'ry) moment expected to appear They were travelling (trav'llin') in great haste. The visitors were numerous (num'rous) on that day. He seemed sunk in melancholy (melMnch'ly). The error in the above examples, is contained within the parenthesis. He was reduced almost to (tii) despair. You were then ready to (tii) depart. His political (p'litic'l) opinions were liberal (lib'ral). There was a radical (radic'l) error in his opinion (upinion). It was a vessel (vess'l) of the first class. His character (cha'acte') was held in just estimation (estimash'n). He w...« less