A Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland

alphabet appear apt to pronounce consonantal consonants couplet D's hand diphthongal sound distinct disyllable Douglas Dr Johnson England English pronounciation entry erased following rhyme footnote to f form a perfect French Greek guttural hard g hard sound inserted in D's instance Italian labial language Latin leaf to face letter lexical long and close long close sound manner mute observation obstruent orthography palatal perfect rhyme perhaps phonology poets pronounce this word pure dialect reader represented rhyme is perfect Scotch are apt Scotch dialect Scotch give Scotch pronounce Scotch sound Scotchmen Scotland Scottish English second sound segment semivowel short and open short close short obscure short open sound Signet Library slender sound soft sound sonorant sort speakers stressed vowel syllable termination true pronounciation verb vernacular pronounciation verse Vide supra vowel length vowel shift vowel space vulgar word rhymes write written