1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading | Page 3

Give an example of a Cognate letter. D is a cognate of T.
76. What are Quiescent letters? Those that are silent.
77. How many uses have Silent letters? Five.
78. What are they? To modify vowels; to modify consonants; to determine signification; to determine origin; and to distinguish words of like signification.
79. What are Explodents? Those letters whose sound cannot be prolonged.
80. Name the Explodents. B, D, G, J, P, Q, T, and K.
81. What are the principle organs of speech? Lips, teeth, tongue, and palate.
82. What is meant by Organical division of the consonants? Pertaining to those particular organs used in their pronunciation.
83. Name the Organical divisions. Labials, Dentals, Linguals, and Palatals.
84. What are Labials? Those letters whose sounds are modified by the lips.
85. Name them. B, F, M, P, V, W, and Wh.
86. What are Dentals? Those letters whose sounds are modified by the teeth.
87. Name them. J, S, Z, Ch, Sh, Zh, C and G soft.
88. What are Linguals? Those letters whose sounds are modified by the tongue.
89. Name them. D, L, N, R, T, Y, and Th.
90. What are Palatals? Those letters whose sounds are modified by the palate.
91. Name them. K, Q, X, Ng, C and G hard.
92. What letters have no Organical classification? H, and all the vowels.
93. What is an Aphthong? A silent letter or combination.
94. How many kinds of Aphthongs? Three.
95. What are they? Vowels, Consonants, and Combinations.
96. What letters are never silent? F, J, Q, R, and X.
97. In what words is V silent? Sevennight and twelvemonth.
98. In what word is Z silent? Rendezvous.
99. What letters are never doubled? X and H.
100. How many words contain all the vowels in regular order? Two.
101. What are they? Abstemious and Facetious.
102. What is a Diphthong? Two vowels sounded together in the same syllable.
103. Name the Diphthongs. Ou, Ow, Oi, and Oy.
104. How many sounds do they represent? Two.
105. What are the sounds called? Diphthongal sounds.
106. How many kinds of Diphthongs are there? Two.
107. What are they? Separable and Inseparable.
108. Which ones are Separable? Oi and Oy.
109. What is an Improper Diphthong? The union of two vowels in a syllable, one of which is silent.
110. By what other name are they known? Digraph.
111. How many Digraphs are there? Twenty-five.
112. Name them. Aa, Ae, Ai, Ao, Au, Aw, Ay, Ea, Ee, Ei, Eo, Eu, Ew, Ey, Ie, Oa, Oe, Oi, Oo, Ou, Ow, Ua, Ue, Ui, and Uy.
113. What is a Trigraph? A union of three vowels in one syllable, two of which are silent, or all three representing one sound.
114. How many Trigraphs are there? Eight.
115. Name them. Awe, Aye, Eau, Eou, Eye, Ieu, Iew, and Uoi.
116. What is a Tetragraph? Union of four vowels in one syllable.
117. How many Tetragraphs are there? One.
118. What is it? Ueue in the word Queue.
119. May the terms Digraph, etc., be used with the Consonants? They may.
120. Give example of Consonant Digraph. Gh, in the word laugh.
121. Give example of Consonant Trigraph. Thr, in the word throw.
122. Give example of Consonant Tetragraph. Phth, in the word phthisic.
123. What is a regular Triphthong? A vowel trigraph in which all three of the vowels are sounded.
124. Give an example. Quoit.

ORTHOEPY.
1. What is Orthoepy? That science which treats of the elementary sounds and the pronunciation of words.
2. What is Phonology? The science of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech.
3. What is an Elementary sound? One that cannot be divided so as to be represented by two or more letters.
4. What is Sound? A sensation produced on the auditory nerve by the rapid vibratory motion of any elastic substance.
5. _What is the least number of vibrations that will produce an audible sound?_ Sixteen per second.
6. What 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.
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