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consonants qr entqrli mi, and de pecqlier nazaliti ov uterans jernd tui de
absens ov el acnblejd acsent, prezént veri grat dificultiz tm overcum.
Inded, de diferens betwen Frenq and IpgliJ iz so mqrct, dat fu Frenqmen
acw|r eni ez er coréctnes in prommsip IpgliJ, and cwjt az fq Ipglijmen
in proporjun ist ov de vqst numberz hm stndi Frenq, ever sucsed in
specip it beter dan de Piqûres in ©eserz t|m,
“ After de scml ov Stratfurd at-a Bo,
For Frenq ov Paris iz tiu dem unno.”
He Frenq dm not acnolej eni diferens betwen bref and stopt vselz ; da
sein tm mac a vsel bref er stopt in meni wurdz, acerdip tm de felip ov
de moment, but da, never confi/z lor/ cmd fort vselz. An Ipglijman, on de
contreri, never confiizez a lop wid a stopt vsel, and rarli conféndz bref and
stopt vselz ; but he haz no felip fer cepip lop and bref vselz asunder,
hwen he iz aewanted wid a vsel under hot fermz ; da qr tm him identical
ecsépt in an acsidental diferens ov lept. He soliteri Jert vuel ov de Frenq,
on de uder hand, iz spoc’n wid a pecqlier crispnes ov uterans, hwiq dis-
tipgwijez it satisfdcturili from its lop smid ; but dis crispnes iz so tiiroli
Frenq, dat an Ipglijman duz muq if he onli satisfjz himself ov its egzistens.
Har qr sum casez, hsever, in hwiq we tipe de vsulz qr elwaz stopt, namli,
hwen a consonant foloz a Jert v^el in de sam silab’l ; at eni rat, we hav
fald tm caq eni distipcjun betwen a stopt and bref vsel in {fat, jeune)
hwiq sem tm be prondnst wid de stopt vselz a, d, dus, fat, 3on.
He Frenq lop vselz contan el de IpgliJ (ecsept a, perhaps) and several
mor. cle synd d can be lernt from de IpgliJ mar—rndaa, but d, d, ii must
be lernt seperetli. clar valqz qr desciqbd in § 10, pp. 17. 20. 21 ; but
we must worn Ipglijmen from felip intm de delq^un dat da can acw|r dez,
er eni uder nq v^el ssndz, from descripjun onli ; de real qs ov ^r descripjun
iz, tm furnij de reder wid a menz ov mor redili apréjiatip de s^ndz hwen
herd, but da can not be tiiroli understiid til herd, and hei'd frecwentli;
ner wil da ever be pron^nst wid perfect coréctnes til da qr az familyer az
nativ srnidz.
cle IpgliJ stopt vselz i, e, a, u qr not fsnd in Frenq ; e ociirz tolerabli
of’n, u iz rar, and 0 iz dstfial ; we dm not fel Jmr hweder in suq wurdz
az (grotte) de trm ssnd iz grot er grot. On de uder hand, de stopt vselz
7, e, a, o, d, it, el ov hwiq qr stranj and veri dificult tm sr ergänz, qr
ov constant ociirens. cle v^el e onli ociirz az a bref vsel, and iz most
frecwentli omited in conversajun. Hwen acsented, it iz of’n prommst wid
an aprocsimajun tm d.
He nazal vselz qr el tiiroli Frenq, and can onli be properli lernt b£ lop
practis. We hav distipgwijt de lop sustând nazal b| an acsent mqrc,
becéz in Frenq de acsent mqrc can hav no uder valq,