 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...syllable, as, king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as, singin, bringin, swingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...pronunciation pays the least attention to it ; but when, from the nicest observation of the best speakers, I find letters given up, with respect to sound, I... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1806 - 636 pages
...letters, in king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as singin, bringm, svñngin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the strittest adherence to orthography, as^long as the public pronunciation pays the least attention to... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...syllable, as king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as, singin, bringin, and swingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...strictest adherence to orthography, as long as the publick pronunciation pays the least attention to it ; but when, from the nicest observation of the... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1822 - 710 pages
...not as if written without the g, as-singin, bringin, swingin. No ona can be a greater advocate than 1 am for the strictest adherence to orthography, as long as the public pronunciation pays the least attcn. tion to it ; but when I find letters given up by the public, with respect to sound, I then consider... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...syllable, as king; sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as singin, bringin, swingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...pronunciation pays the least attention to it ; but when, from the nicest observation of the best speakers, I find letters given up, with respect to sound, I... | |
 | John Walker - Bible - 1823 - 808 pages
...these letters, in king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g at tarm. trn^ix, nringin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the strictest adherence to oruWraphy, as lone as the pnblick pronunciation pays the least attention to it ; but when I find >t«n... | |
 | John Walker - 1827 - 864 pages
...letters, in king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as singin, bringin, twingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...as long as the public pronunciation pays the least atten. tion to it ; but when I find letters given up by the public, with respect to sound, I then consider... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1832 - 1738 pages
...than I am for tbe strictest adherence to orthography, as long as the pablick pronunciation pars tbe least attention to it ; but when I find letters given up by tbe Publick, with respect to sound, I then consider them as ciphers : and, if my observation doe«... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1834 - 682 pages
...letters, in king, sing, and tiring-, and not as if written without the g, as, singin, bringin, swingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...public, with respect to sound, I then consider them as ciphers ; and, if my observation do not greatly fail me, I can assert, that our best speakers do not... | |
 | American essays - 1885 - 1024 pages
...letters, in king, sing, and wing, and not as if written without the g, as ringin, bringin, stoingin. No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the...public, with respect to sound, I then consider them as ciphers ; and, if my observation does not greatly fail me, I can assert that our best speakers do not... | |
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No one can be a greater advocate than I am for the strictest adherence to orthography, as long as the public pronunciation pays the least attention to it... 
