Excerpt from History of English Sounds From the Earliest Period: With Full Word-Lists My History of English Sounds was, therefore, originally an expansion of a monograph on the history of long 8 and 0. At first intended to treat only of the vowels, it was afterwards made to include a sketch of the consonants. The word list grew under my hands in the same way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A History of English Sounds From the Earliest Period: With Full Word-Lists My History of English Sounds was, therefore, originally an expansion of a monograph on the history of long a and a. At first intended to treat only of the vowels, it was afterwards made to include a sketch of the consonants. The word list grew under my hands in the same way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.