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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


81. _What are the principle organs of speech?_
Lips, teeth, tongue, and palate.
82. _What is meant by Organical division of the consonants?_
Pertaining to those particular organs used in their pronunciation.
83. _Name the Organical divisions._
Labials, Dentals, Linguals, and Palatals.
84. _What are Labials?_
Those letters whose sounds are modified by the lips.
85. _Name them._
B, F, M, P, V, W, and Wh.
86. _What are Dentals?_
Those letters whose sounds are modified by the teeth.
87. _Name them._
J, S, Z, Ch, Sh, Zh, C and G soft.
88. _What are Linguals?_
Those letters whose sounds are modified by the tongue.
89. _Name them._
D, L, N, R, T, Y, and Th.
90. _What are Palatals?_
Those letters whose sounds are modified by the palate.
91. _Name them._
K, Q, X, Ng, C and G hard.
92. _What letters have no Organical classification?_
H, and all the vowels.
93. _What is an Aphthong?_
A silent letter or combination.
94. _How many kinds of Aphthongs?_
Three.
95. _What are they?_
Vowels, Consonants, and Combinations.


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