An Outline of English Speech-craft

About this eBook

Author

Barnes, William, 1801-1886

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Grammar

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44289

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44289

Release Date

November 26, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH SPEECH-CRAFT
2. 2.FORE-SAY.
3. 3.HEADS OF MATTER.
4. 4.SPEECH-CRAFT. — THINGS AND THING-NAMES. — Thing Sundriness and Thing Mark-words. — SUCHNESS OR QUALITIES, — Pitches of Suchness. — TIME-TAKING. — Unoutreaching or Intransitive. — Outreaching (Transitive). — Time-giving. — -ING Root-words (strong). — Weak. — -NK, Broad . — -K, Broad, Long Stem-words (weak). — -K, Short . — -G, Short . — -T, Long Stem-words . — -T, Short Stem-words . — -TH. — -T , Short (weak shortened). — Weak -D (long). — Weak -D (short). — -L , Broad Sound (long). — -N , Long . — -N , Short Stem-words . — -R , Broad Sounds . — -R , Short . — -S and -Z , Long . — -SS. — -SH. — -P , Long . — -P , Short . — Weak -B (short). — -V , Long . — -F , Short . — -M , Long . — Stub-roots. — Under-Sundrinesses of Time-takings. — Fitting of the Time-word to all the cases of Person, Time, and Mood. — Things and Time-takings. — Time. — Historic Time-wording. — The Moods of Time-takings. — Stead-marks and Way-marks of Time-takings. — THOUGHT-WORDING, SPEECH-WORDING, — Twin Time-takings. — Speech-trimming. — Twy-meanings. — Word-sameness (Synonyms). — Oddly-shapen or Oddly-taken Words. — Wordiness (Verbosity). — Shortened Shapes (p. 23 ).
5. 5.WORDS OF SPEECH-CRAFT, AND OTHERS, ENGLISHED. WITH SOME NOTES. — The Power of the Word-endings. — Dead Pennings. — Half-Pennings. — The Goodness of a Speech.
6. 6.CLUE TO MATTERS HANDLED.
7. 7.A LIST OF C. KEGAN PAUL AND CO.’S PUBLICATIONS. — THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
8. 8.Footnotes
9. 9.Transcriber's Note

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