id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31766 Burgess, Walton Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected .txt text/plain 20827 2321 84 habit of misusing many of the most common words of the English language, Salisbury Plain,--meaning _careful_, and pronounced as though divided The following words were posted, as a sign, in a reading-room--"No noun, as in this instance, pronounce it in three syllables; when placed _Superfluous R's_: Many persons pronounce words which have no letter _Reading_:" pronounced the first italicized word to rhyme with _feeding_, pronounce the former word with the accent on _gust_; the latter, on _Au_. "What a long _lirry_ he has to say!" This word should be pronounced distinct sounding of the _i_; else the word becomes _ante_, which means The following sentence affords an example of three words of similar sentence, "_A wise and good man_ should be respected," the words _wise_ This work contains about fourteen thousand of the most useful words in the this manner, by the introduction of a new class of words, or the use of ./cache/31766.txt ./txt/31766.txt