1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading | Page 4

is the greatest number that can be heard? About forty
thousand per second.
7. What is Voice? Sound produced by the vocal chords.
8. What is an Articulate sound? One made by the organs of speech and
used in language.
9. What is a Vocal sound? One that is modified but not obstructed by
the articulatory organs.
10. What is a simple Vocal sound? One made without any change in the
position of the articulatory organs during its emission.
11. What is a Coalescent? An articulate sound that always precedes and
unites with a vocal.
12. What is a Guttural sound? One that is modified by the soft palate.

13. What are Unarticulate sounds? The sounds of the vowels.
14. How many Elementary sounds do the vowels represent? Fifteen.
15. How many do the Consonants represent? Eighteen.
16. How many do the Combinations represent? Seven.
17. How many do the Diphthongs represent? Only one, as oi and oy
only repeat sounds already represented by a and i.
18. How many sounds has A? Five.
19. What are they? Long, Short, Medial, Flat, and Broad.
20. How many sounds has E? Two.
21. What are they? Long and Short.
22. How many sounds has I? Two.
23. What are they? Long and Short.
24. How many sounds has O? Three.
25. What are they? Long, Short, and Slender.
26. How many sounds has U? Three.
27. What are they? Long, Short, and Medial.
28. How many sounds has B? One; as heard in the word babe.
29. How many sounds has C? None that may be properly called its
own.
30. How many sounds has D? One; as heard in the word did.
31. How many sounds has F? One; as heard in the word flew.

32. How many sounds has G? Two; as heard in the words go and age.
33. How many sounds has H? One; as heard in the word high.
34. How many sounds has J? None of its own, but represents one; the
sound of G.
35. How many sounds has K? One; as heard in the word key.
36. How many sounds has L? One; as heard in the word lily.
37. How many sounds has M? One; as heard in the word money.
38. How many sounds has N? One; as heard in the word nat.
39. How many sounds has P? One; as heard in the word pie.
40. How many sounds has R? One; as heard in the word roar.
(REM.--Some authors give r three sounds.)
41. How many sounds has S? One; as heard in the word same.
42. How many sounds has T? One; as heard in the word tight.
43. How many sounds has V? One; as heard in the word view.
44. How many sounds has W? One; as heard in the word we.
45. How many sounds has X? None of its own, as it is a redundant
letter.
46. How many sounds has Z? One; as heard in the word ooze.
47. How many sounds has Th? Two; as heard in the words thigh and
the.
48. How many sounds has Ch? One; as heard in the word church.
49. How many sounds has Sh? One; as heard in the word ash.

50. How many sounds has Zh? One obscurely; represented by si in such
words as fusion, zi in glazier.
51. How many sounds has Wh? One; as heard in the word what.
52. How many sounds has Ng? One; as heard in the word sing.
53. What are regular sounds? The long sounds of the letters.

SUBSTITUTES.
1. What is a Substitute? A letter representing a sound usually
represented by another.
2. What are Equivalent letters? Letters representing the same sound.
3. What properties do Substitutes assume? The properties of the letter
whose sound it represents.
4. How many Substitutes has a long? Four.
5. What are they? E in tete; ei in feint; ey in they; and ao in gaol.
6. How many Substitutes has a middle? Two.
7. What are they? E in there; and ei in heir.
8. How many Substitutes has a broad? Two.
9. What are they? O in cord; and ou in sought.
10. How many Substitutes has e long? Three.
11. What are they? I in marine; ie in fiend; and ay in quay.
12. How many Substitutes has e short? Two.
13. What are they? A in says; and u in bury.

14. How many Substitutes has i long? Two.
15. What are they? Y in chyme; and oi in choir.
16. How many Substitutes has i short? Six.
17. What are they? Y in hymn; e in England; u in busy; o in women; ee
in been; and ai in captain.
18. How many Substitutes has o long?