The American Educational Monthly (Volume 7); A Magazine of Popular Instruction and Literature

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...on his inaccurate statements about the pronunciation of short t, a, e, g, r, f (the pronunciation of which, like the English z, the author declares to be provincial--a very strange error), D, f, d) and ng. His pronunciation of double consonants must be peculiar, indeed; for he cautions the student against pronuncing tt in 2Jfittag like tt in 3J?itte, against pronouncing U in pietleidjt like U in (c)efle, i in utuKfcr like in ifee, nn in bemtod) like nn in Spcnnc. There is no difference whatever in the pronunciation of the mentioned double consonants in these different words. Page 38, he says that the adjectives of material in en and trn, as bfeicrn, are not used predicatively. This is not so. Compare (c)otfje 9iaturfid)e Sodjter 5, 6: Oft &nn bcr gnmrnel cfjent fiber inir? So Glasbrenner (9Jeue (c)ebiihte p. 59): 2ld) roic tft bcin glug fo bfetern, SlrmeS 23aiern, armes patera, etc. Hagedom ((Scbichte 3, p. 100): SBie eifern finb bod) ob, ne bid) bie jgeiten. Klopstock (Messias 16,161) Unb eifern wirb bed (c)terbenben (Sccfe; and other innumerable passages. Page 47: Superlatives ending in the suffix ifch form no superlative in eft (ft). Heyse says in this respect that such and advises to use instead of them the circumlocution with ant me tft en; but Professor Whitney improves on Heyse--he denies their existence. However, they are used fre auently, and by the very best authors; and their harshness is not greater than that of the superlatives of rafd), frifch etc., or than combinations like tft'8, or words like Slrjt. Com fare Seffing Snt. (c)al.: Ste fagte bie melandjolifcbften SMnge (where leyse's remedy, / )te am meiften mdaudjolifdjen Singe, would be ridiculo