id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15364 Sargeaunt, John Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin .txt text/plain 16047 1272 75 ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN in the English pronunciation of words borrowed from Latin and Greek, stress coming as early in the word as was possible. Quintilian rule, that all words with a long unit as penultimate had the stress on the vowel in that unit, while words of more due to the English pronunciation, the influence of such words as understood that in the traditional pronunciation of Latin these words The consonants were pronounced as in English words derived from Latin. In words of more than two syllables with short penultima the vowel pronounced long if no consonant divided the two following vowels. an English word imported from the Latin. the Latin word is long. Of course all scholars shortened the first vowel of the word, and 'physician' is a long word; and though it has been good English in ./cache/15364.txt ./txt/15364.txt