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APPENDIX.
The vowels are pronounced as follows:
a, | like | a | in | father. |
e, | ” | a | ” | mate. |
I, | ” | e | ” | me. |
o, | ” | o | ” | go. |
u, | ” | oo | ” | boot. |
y, | ” | y | ” | liberty. |
y is a vowel when it stands by itself, or at the end of a word, or of a syllable immediately followed by a consonant.
The consonants are pronounced as follows:
b, | like | b in baby (b is often erroneously sounded like v). |
c,[1] | ” | th in theft. |
ch, | ” | ch in chess. |
d, | ” | d in day and fed. |
f, | ” | f in effect. |
g, | ” | h in ham, he. |
h, | ” | h silent in heir. |
j, | ” | h strongly aspirated in home. |
l, | ” | l in labial, elect. |
ll, | ” | II in brilliant. |
m, | ” | m in amen. |
n, | ” | n in energy, no. |
ñ, | ” | n (somewhat nasal) in onion. |
p, | ” | p in paper. |
q | ” | q in piquet, quint. |
r, | ” | r soft in erect. |
r, | ” | r or rr (very harsh) in horror |
s, | ” | ss in senseless. |
t, | ” | t in tent. |
v, | ” | v in velvet |
x, | ” | x (cs) in maxim. |
y, | ” | y softer than g or j in gentry, jet. |
z, | ” | z like th, lisped z, in thermal. |
- ↑ C, before a, o, u, l, r, and when it is at the end of a syllable, sounds like k in English.