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reduced vowel, as in ajy'-os-tumey ap'-er-ture, Lcd'-dcr-dashj cal'-en- 

 der, cham'-per-tor, mod'-es-ft/, lib'-er-tj/, prot'-es tant, &c. ; also in 

 nr'-en-ta-tion, cer-tif'-l-catc, (/es-ta'-fi'on, len-ti'-gOy mer-cu'-ri-al, sei'- 

 pi'-go, ver-haV-i-ty, ver-tk'-i-fij, and when the vowel has the secondary 

 accent, as in coV-her-tine, as'-per-na'-tion, es'-cadadc', res'-tl-tu'-tion. 

 When two continuants are medial, the voice rests on the first and 

 protracts it; hence, the break occurs in the middle between the two 

 letters, as in hardey, mar-mot, fur-nish, fil-my^ al-nage, em-rod, 

 liemdoch, Hcn-ry, dun-lin, Engdish, or-phan^ mar-vel, marshal, 

 el-fin, census, an-them, fren-zy, &c. Some of these words have a 

 tendency to draw both continuants into the first syllable, ns/iirn-ish, 

 filmy, orpli-an, marv-el, marsh-al, eJf-ln, but it is questionable 

 whether this tendency ought to be indulged in practical syllabication. 

 When a reduced vowel precedes, the break is still in the middle be- 

 tween the two continuants, as in ril!-or-nel, cham'-herdain, soV-em-nize, 

 Ber-mu'-das, ver-nac'-u-lar, cen so'-ri-ous, and also when the vowel 

 has the secondary accent, as in maV -versa' -tlon, ster'-nu-ta'-tion. 



§ 43. When triphthongal combinations of continuants and mutes 

 are medial, the break is always immediately after the first continu- 

 ant or mute, e. g., for-tress, hiir-glar, cul-prif, pal-frey, fil-trate, cal- 

 dron, fid-crnm. Jam-prey, cam-hrlc, Hum-frey, tem-plar, tinn-hler, 

 en-try, kin-dred, torsten, holster, sol-dier, Si'm-pson, redem-ption, 

 sum-pter, rhymster, monster, an-gel, tungsten, frus-trafe, os-prey, 

 ac-tress, God-frey, lohsfer, huckster, capstan. In hungry, sphincter, 

 for orthographical reasons, we must divide hung-ry, sphinc-ter. 



§ 44. When combinations of four continuants and mutes are me- 

 dial, the break is invariably after the first member ; thus, we say 

 minstrel, tem-(ji)tress, songstress, decstral {ilex-tral). 



§ 45. Practical English syllabication is a compromise between the 

 etymological and phonological division of words. The etymological 

 division is resorted to : 



1. In all words compounded of two independent English words, 

 whether they be nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, or any other 

 parts of speech, e. g., shortdiand, hug-hear, cut-throat, hooh-ful, off- 

 hand, vpdiold, unth-draio, mis-tahe, &c. 



2. In such words where suffixes are appended, and where, after 

 dropping the suffix, we obtain a simple English word, e. g., connect-ed, 

 treat-ed, sdk-cn, oak-en, eat-en, chick-en, eat-er, drink-er, old-er, east- 

 ern, 2vcstcrn, nall-ery, hrew-ery ; countless, heir-ess, art-less, blame- 

 less; branch-let, streamdet;2yave-77ient,punish-vienf, ajit-ness, good-ness, 

 bind-ivg, sing-ing ; cat-kin, lamb-kin; birdding, dump-ling ; court- 



