. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . to invite attention to a few co-mical peculiarities in connection with articulatesounds. Ahem ! at the commencement of a speech, is asound agreeably droll. The vocal comicalities of the infant in armsare exceedingly laughable, but we are unfor-tunately unable to spell them. The articulation of the Jew is pecuUarly ridi-culous. The peoplesh are badly spoken of,and not well spoken. ORTHOGRAPHY. 27 Bawling, croaking, hissing, whistling, and grunt-ing, are elegant vocal accomplishments. Lisping, as, thweet, Dthoo
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . to invite attention to a few co-mical peculiarities in connection with articulatesounds. Ahem ! at the commencement of a speech, is asound agreeably droll. The vocal comicalities of the infant in armsare exceedingly laughable, but we are unfor-tunately unable to spell them. The articulation of the Jew is pecuUarly ridi-culous. The peoplesh are badly spoken of,and not well spoken. ORTHOGRAPHY. 27 Bawling, croaking, hissing, whistling, and grunt-ing, are elegant vocal accomplishments. Lisping, as, thweet, Dthooliur, thawming,kweechau, is by some considered interesting, byothers absurd. Stammering is sometimes productive of amuse-ment. Humming and hawing are ludicrous embel-lishments to a discourse. Crowing like a cock,braying like a donkey, quacking like a duck, andhooting like an owl, are modes of exerting thevoice which are usually regarded as diverting. But of all the sounds which proceed from thehuman mouth, by far the funniest are Ha ! ha !ha! — Ho ! ho ! ho ! and He ! he ! he I. 28 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CHAPTER II. OF SYLLABLES. Syllable is a nice word, it sounds so muchlike syllabub! A syllable, whether it constitute a word orpart of a word, is a sound, either simple or com-pound, produced by one effort of the voice, as, O !, what, a, lark ! — Here, we, are !
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