Historical Manual of English Prosody

· 1933

The author makes extensive use of diacritics such as macron, breve and grave accent to indicate stress, length etc. In the original, these symbols often float over the text to show that they apply to the syllable, but in this e-book are marked on the first vowel of the syllable only. Bold typeface is represented by by surrounding #hash symbols#; italic by _underscores_; small caps by ALL CAPS and strikethrough by ~tilde characters~. The caret symbol (^) precedes superscript characters.…

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