186 S. Porter on the Vowel Elements in Speech. 
VII. Tue e VowrEts.—The passage is extended still further 
on the hard-palate and the tongue, and the tip of the tongue 
will naturally be found further forwar 
Degree 1.— Vowel e'. The “long a” in English, as in ale, fate, 
great, vein, hal, day, &c. ; ee the more usual German long é, 
as in mehr, jeder; the other, in leben, &., has been already ‘de- 
scribed as @'. Possibly » some one of the two or three or more 
varieties of the “open e” in French may not differ materially 
rom this. 
This vowel, in English, more commonly takes a vanish in an 
2 vowel (peque, pzn, Ke.) : ; as it plainly does always in say, ray, 
» aC, 
egree 2.— Vowel e?. Occurs in English in lightly accented or 
eeew syllables; as nitrate, carbonate, climate, parlament, 
pidary, comparative, &c. In such a case as edge, the conso- 
nant inclines the vowel to this instead of the open “sound of e in 
get, t ough edge would never be made close like age. The long 
a is “iaeails struck upon this degree, falling quick y upon the 
closer sound for the main part, and ending « off with the vanish 
ini; e.g., name, ga pain; but in quick. utterance, the closer 
sound is not given 
This is the usual shee e of pte Gamma accented and unac- 
eee ag fertig, on Liebe, 
— Vovel e?, The auslish short e, so-called, as in get, 
egg, ae “We do not hear previsel y this in the shortest French 
e, crtte, trompette, nor in the German, as denn, Bett, i ;—denn 
is not just the maatee den, is sechs the same with s 
gree 4.— Vow let, ‘lo this I am disposed to ape the 
French é, as in téte, ie. In ‘inalist the long a may be some- 
times draw led into ‘this form, and. singers do this sometimes ees 
the sliort ¢, as iu self, ten, fur exa mple ; but in each case it is a 
flat and faulty pronunciation. 
vi HE é VowkeLs.—The passage reaches well on to the 
forward part of the hard-palate and the tongue 
Degree 1.—Vowel é1. The close é and ai of the French, as 
nté, cité, j'ai, aimeraz. The sound may sometimes be given 
to the English long a, but such is not the usual pronunciation. 
Degree 2.— Vowel é g2, The French “open acute” e and a, as 
eette, ii. aimer, maison; also heard in ‘certain unaccented syl- 
lables Nglish, as guinea, valley, carried, college, resist, pre 
pare, appchig level, busy, city, and in the vulgar a final, as 
America, Cuba, Eliza. The vowel is aihaubat “difficult to dis- 
eriminate from wa “ the feeding group 
Po this belongs, I think, the German 
we, Bat a pas a shortest French e, as trompette, &c. - 
naccented, in goodness, knowledge, trumpet, de. 
rights heat here being not the short #, nor the regular short » 
but intermediate. 
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