Standard English Pronunciation With Some Notes On Accidence And Syntax PDF Download

Excerpt from The Sounds of Standard English: With Some Notes on Accidence and Syntax Some twenty years ago an enterprising scientist spent some time in an African forest, securely housed in a cage and furnished with instruments to record the sounds uttered by such animals as might grow used enough to the intruder to forget their suspicion and to recommence their normal activities. These records were afterwards reproduced by a gramophone in a zoological garden in Europe where monkeys were confined, and the captives responded to the sounds made, now with gusts of merriment and now with cries of panic, making it clear that the simian language of the jungle was intelligible in other circles than that in which it was actually uttered. A dog, however, habitually domiciled in Lancashire and taken for a holiday to Devonshire, will for some little time be set upon by the Devon dogs. This maybe because the air and water of each county imparts to its animal life a distinctive smell; or it may be that the language of the domestic dog - which is known to have many more expressions than that of a prairie dog - is differentiated by geographical peculiarities. Be the case as it may with the other animals, men's language at any rate is, as we all know, in spite of conquest and courtship, of trade and travel, not everywhere uniform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.