No. VI.

EXERCISES ON REDUPLICATED CONSONANTS.

1. P-P.

hop-poles, sharp point, limp paper, ripe pear, deep ponds, steep place, plump partridge, grasp principles, steep precipices, stop payment, keep peace, soup plates, sharp pain, cheap price, landscape painter, ship pilot, friendship prevailed.

2. B-B.

herb broth, superb beauty, the babe bawls, rub boots, herb bushes, curb brutes, disturb bigotry, crab baskets, jib boom, rob bird nests, club bearer, cub bear, cube base, imbibe brandy, Queen Mab brings dreams.

3. T-T.

fit time, trite truths, rat trap, vehement temper, hot tea, distinct traces, fruit trees, soft tufts, soft tendrils, contrite tears, quiet times, abstract truth, correct time, bypocrite tears, exact transcript, faint twilight, serpent tongue, midnight terror, incessant toil, prompt trick, fraudulent temptation, secret treason, apt teacher, degenerate times, quite tight, tit-tat, sweet thyme, merriment tires, transient tints, strict tenets, vast treasures, late traveller, russet tresses.

4. D-D.

good day, mad dog, horrid din, second division, defined distinctness, dappled dawn, shrewd dame, household drudge, muffled drums, upside down, cold dews, loud derision, drugged draught, dreaded doom, detested deed, outdared dastard, wild deer, intrepid daring, bigoted dotards, disturbed dreams, kneaded dough, muzzled dogs, puzzled dunces, threatened destruction, sequestered dales, wild delight, avoid deceit, embroidered dress, barbed dart, sheltered deep, unsounded depths, interdicted diet, bowed down, found drowned, pride died, hallowed dirge.

5. K-K.

book-case, dark chasm, black cake, thick cloth, sleek content, public care, quick quadrille, gothic cathedral, picturesque costumes, heroic conduct, grotesque caricature, domestic comfort, click clack, rustic cot, brick kiln, monastic cloisters, bleak country, eccentric character, frank countenance, take care, sack cloth, black cloud.

6. G-G.

big girl, snug gig, vague guesses, fig groves, nutmeg graters, zigzag glen, beg gifts, the pig grunts, the frog grows, the dog growls.

7. F-F.

deaf folly, rough force, bluff fellow, tough food, stiff finger, brief fortune, grief falters, enough familiarity, chafe fastidiousness, safe ferry, life fleets, safe foundations, leaf fibre, chief foe, whiff fumes, the skiff floats, scoff folly.

8. V-V.

extensive views, native vales, plaintive voice, active vigilance, decisive victory, brave votary, pensive virgin, impulsive verve, fugitive verse, submissive vassal, drive vehicles.

9. S-S.

injurious slanders, harmonious sounds, fierce strife, devious steps, dense smoke, false sign, wise scholars, venomous snakes, monstrous strength, boundless space, zealous sects, copious source, mutinous citizens abstruse studies, pumice stone, quince seeds, luscious sweets, adverse circumstances, tempestuous seas, glorious sunrise, blameless silence, cease censorious speeches, scentless spices, sleepless sorrow, pathless steeps, delicious scent, senseless schemes, ceaseless streams, pious saint, reckless sinners, precious stone, populous cities, tremulous sighs, heterogeneous sentences, beasts' skins, viperous slander, close scrutiny, vigorous strokes, hopeless struggle.

10. Z-Z.

his zeal, despise zanies, summer's zephyrs.

11. TH-TH.

warmth thaws, overgrowth thwarts, truth thrives, fifth thrust, sixth theme.

12. DH-DH.

soothe them, with thee, sheathe thy dagger.

13. SH-SH.

fresh sugar, rash surety, peevish shrew, hush shrewish shrieks, sheepish shrugs, harsh shingle, fish shoals, fresh shrimps, garish shows, foolish shepherd, childish shyness, dwarfish shape, selfish shelter, brutish shouts, Irish shamrock, church shrine.

14. ZH-ZH.

huge giraffe.

15. NG-G.

There can be no meetings of ng and ng. The practice of the final ng succeeded by its cognate sounds g and k, will, however, be found useful in removing a very common habit of substituting n for ng.

singing girls, dying gladiator, surpassing glory, glittering gewgaws, straggling growth, growing greed, echoing glen, clustering grapes, rising ground, yawning gulf.

16. NG-K.

corroding cares, lowing kine, deafening clamours, struggling crowd, stirring call, exciting contest.

17. L-L.

lingual letters, vernal lilies, loyal life, filial love, rural landscape, pale look, playful lambs, mutual league, tall lad, small lock, shrill laughter, celestial light, autumnal leaves, cool lymph, disdainful look, vital lamp, equinoctial line, regal lustre, frail life, steel lance, total lull, careful labour, fickle ladies, moral lessons.

18. M-M.

prime minister, calm morn, dumb man, dumb mouths, toilsome march, firm measures, esteem modesty, roam meadows, warm month, infirm man, grim monk, extreme marvel, solemn moments.

19. N-N.

mean-ness, mountain nymph, profaneness, human knowledge, pen knife, foreign nations, boon nature, broken knees, common noun, lessen knavery, iron nail, worn net, stern need, green knoll, fine night, benign knight, even now, serene night, forlorn nun.

20. R-R.

sore remedy, bare recollection, poor rhymes, fore-runner, fair reply, briar roses, clear river, silver ring, obscure rumour, mere romance, fair rival.

21. H-H.

There can be no meetings of the pure aspirate h.

K

22. W-W.

hollow wind, slow walk, new wood, bow window, no wonder, blue waves, shallow water, few words, due west.

23. WH-WH.

There are no meetings of wh.

24. Y-Y.

angry yeoman, ready youths, speedy yacht, lazy yawns, baby yells, fancy yields.

No. VII.

EXERCISE ON ALLIED CONSONANTS.

1. P-B.

scrap book, hip bath, weep bitterly, top boy, limp bulb, ship builder, grape bunches, escape brawls, hope betrayed, wasp bites, deep below, cup bearer.

2. B-P.

job piece, robe priests, curb power, daub pictures, scrub paint.

3. T-D.

wet day, next door, fat deer, great danger, constant duty, imminent danger, great joy (j=dzh), soft dews, swift death, smallest dwarfs, infinite despair, soft dalliance, strict discipline, valiant deeds, prompt decision, vanished days, unchecked desire, omnipotent decree, swift destruction, negligent delay.

4. D-T.

red tape, field tent, old town, sad torment, ivy-mantled tower, hard tasks, perjured traitors, dread trident, wild thyme, disciplined troops, kindred tribes, tufted trees, household toil, greenwood tree, glad tidings, loud trumpet, hard times, edged tools, candid truth, rude tradition, guarded tent, shaded tint, measured tread, hoarded treasure, sacred ties.

5. K-G.

dark glen, silk gowns, quick glance, fantastic garlands, heroic games, prophetic greeting, despotic government, thick gloom, terrific gales, frolic

glee, mock glee, classic garb, oak groves, public games, back-ground, warlike guise, hectic glow, chalk ground, gothic gable.

6. G-K.

big coat, egg cup, dog kennel, snug kitchen.

7. F-V.

delf vessel, brief view, chief valour, rough vigour, gruff voice, safe voyage.

8. V-F.

live fish, relative force, creative fancy, excessive frost, deceptive flattery, festive festoons, vindictive feelings, creative fancy, native fields, grave philosophers, destructive fury, five fourths, five fingers, have faith, love friends, leave folly, excessive fondness.

9. S-Z.

its zest, monstrous zebra, senseless zany, curious zealots, pious zeal, delicious zephyr.

10. Z-S.

wise senators, 'tis so, his sin, breathes softly, voices sweet, to please sisters seems sweet, seize slaves, always so, bronze statues.

both those, He seeth thee.

11. TH-DH.

12. DH-TH.

to breathe through, wreathe thistles.

ZH-SH.

large (ge=d-zlı) shoes, strange shows, savage shouts, judge sharply.

N.B.-Though these examples are given as an excellent means of training the organs of voice, it must be borne in mind that the best speakers would avoid many of the above combinations of sounds, as being too difficult for natural and fluent utterance.