THE FOLLOWING GENERAL RULES AS AFFECTING THE PRONUNCIATION 

 OF A LARGE CLASS OF WORDS HAVING C OR g AS ONE OF THEIR 

 ELEMENTS, CANNOT BUT PROVE USEFUL TO THE READER IN CONSULT- 

 ING THE FOLLOWING PAGES. See list in English Spellings and 

 Spelling Rules, p. 70. * 



I. c is generally pronounced as Tc (1) when followed by one of the 

 vowels a, 0, u, as in 'cake,' 'becoming,' 'concuss'; (2) when 

 followed by a consonant, except h, as in 'accord,' 'clime'; (3) when 

 it terminates a word, as in 'physic,' 'music/ * zinc.' 



c is generally pronounced s when it comes before one of the 

 vowels e, i, y, as in 'avarice,' 'cipher,' 'fancy.' 



II. g is generally pronounced as dj before e, i, y, ce, as in 'page,' 

 'pageantry,' 'rage,' 'origin,' 'oxygen,' 'regent,' 'pugilism,' 'rugae,' 

 'monogyn.' 



g is generally 'hard (1) when it comes before the vowels a, o, u, as 

 in ' prefigure, ' ' regulate, ' 'organ,' 'regard,' 'legume,' 'rigorous'; 

 (2) when it comes before any consonant, except h t as in 'progress,' 

 'quagmire,' 'pugnacious'; (3) when it terminates a word, as in 

 ' rag, ' ' ring, ' 'rung, ' ' strong. ' 



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THE SOUND SYMBOLS USED IN THE RE -SPELLINGS 



FOR PRONUNCIATION IN 



THE STUDENT'S MANUAL OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS. 



NOTE. Among well-educated people, in Scotland at least, I seems 

 to have two sounds 



1. I in its proper name-sound, as in sigh, try, high, my, tie, liar, 



bye, hire, sire. 



2. ei forming a sound resulting from the combined sounds of e and 



i, as in height, pine, mine, sight, write, white, flight, fright, 

 might, trite. 



