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:;APPENDIX. 3433. A single consonant, or a mute and a liquid before an accentedvowel, are joined to that vowel, and so also is a singleconsonant after it, except in the penult ; as, i-nx'-e-ra, hom'4-//^.Exc. 1. A single consouant, or a mute and a liquid, after a, e, o, accented,and followed by e or > before a vowel, are joined to the latter ; as, sd-ci-us trd-m-us, do-CE-o, pd-TRi-us.Exc. 2. A single consonant, or a mute and a liquid after w, accented, mustbe joined to the following vowel ; as, mu-Li-er, tu-Ti-or, Iu-bri-cus.4. Any two consonants, except a mute and a liquid comingbefore or after an accented vowel, and also a mute and a liquidafter an accented vowel (the penult and the exceptions to Rule3 excepted), must be divided ;as, tem-por'-i-bus, lec'-tum, tern 1 -po-rum, met'-ri-cus.Also gl, tl, and often cl, after the penultimate vowel, or before the vowelof an accented syllable; as, At'-la,% At lan'-ti-des, ec-lec'-ta.5. If three consonants come between the vowels of any twosyllables, the last two, if a mute and a liquid, are joined to thelatter vowel; as, con'-tra, amJ' -pli-a'-vit ; otherwise, the lastonly ;as, comp'-tus, re-demp'-tor.6. A compound word is resolved into its constituent parts,if the first part ends with a consonant; as, AB-es'-se, sub'-i-U,ix'-i-tur, circxjm'-d-go. But if the first part ends withavow r el,it is divided like a simple word ; as, DEf'-e-ro, ml'-i-go, YnMs'-to.921.— These rules are useful here, only as a guide to the pronunciationin the Walkerian mode, the vowel sounds being always different when theyend a syllable, and when followed by a consonant ; thus, dil'-i-go audprces'-towould be pronounced very differently if divided thus, di'-li-go and prce'-sto.though the quantity and accent would be the same in both. It is thereforemanifest, that in order to correct pronunciation in this mode, it is necessaryto be familiar with, and ready in applying, the rules of syllabication.IV. OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.922.— The sound of the Vowels.1. Every accented vowel at the end of a syllable has thelong English sound; as in the words fate, me, pine, no, tubethus, pa'-ter, de r -dit, vi'-vus, to'-tus, tu f -ba. Ty'-rus*2. At the end of an unaccented syllable, e, o, and u, havenearly the same sound as when accented, but are soundedshorter; as, re'-te, vo'-lo, ma f -nu ; a has the sound of a in father;as, mu r -sa, e-pis f -to-la.Z ending an unaccented syllable, has always its long soundin the following positionsY has he sound of i in the same situation.