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aqueduct, &c. The remains are preserved partly in the museum at Budapest, and partly ih the municipal museum. The bishopric was created in 1777. the last See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter in the Semitic See also:

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

alphabet, where, however, Tits See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form in the earliest See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions is that of a St See also:

Andrew's See also:

CROSS

Cross X. In both See also:

Greek and Latin, however, although the upright and cross stroke are frequently not exactly at right angles and the upright often projects beyond the cross stroke, the forms approach more nearly to the See also:

MODERN

modern than to the Semitic shape. The name Taw was taken over in the Greek rail. The See also:

sound was that of the unvoiced dental stop. The See also:

ENGLISH

English t, however, is not dental but alveolar, being pronounced, as d also, not by putting the See also:

TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue against the See also:

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth but against their sockets. This difference is marked in the phonetic differentiation of the dental and the alveolar t by See also:

writing them respectively t and t. The alveolar sound is frequent also in the See also:

LANGUAGES

languages of See also:

India, which possess both this and the dental sound.

The See also:

INDIAN

Indian t, however, is probably produced still farther from the teeth than is the English sound. In the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of words when t precedes a palatal sound like i (y) which is not syllabic, it coalesces with it into the sound of sh as in position, nation, &c. The See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change to a sibilant in these cases took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in See also:

LATE

late Latin, but in Middle English the i following the t was still pronounced as a See also:

SEPARATE

separate syllable. A later change is that which is seen in the See also:

PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation of nature as neits'. This arises from the pronunciation of u as yu, and does not affect the English dialects which have not thus modified the u sound. Similar changes had taken place in some of the See also:

LOCAL

local dialects of See also:

Italy before the See also:

Christian era. At the end of words the English t is really aspirated, a breath being audible after the t in words like See also:

BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit, See also:

hit, See also:

PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

pit. This is the sound that in See also:

ancient Greek was represented by B. In See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval and modern Greek, however, this has become the unvoiced sound represented in English by th in thin, thick, See also:

PITH (O.E. pitca, cognate with Du. pit, kernel of a nut)

pith. Though represented in English by two symbols this is a single sound, which may be either interdental or, as frequently in English, produced " by keeping the tongue loosely behind the upper front teeth, so that the breath escapes partly between the tongue and the teeth, and partly, if the teeth are not very closely set, through the interstices between them " (Jespersen). In English th repre- sents both the unvoiced sound J as in thin, &c., and the voiced sound 8, which is found initially only in pronominal words like this, that, there, then, those, is commonest medially as in See also:

FATHER

father, bother, smother, either, and is found also finally in words like with (the preposition), both. See also:

Early English used 12 and 8 indiscriminately for both voiced and unvoiced sounds, in Middle English 8 disappeared and 1' was gradually assimilated in form to y, which is often found for it in early See also:

PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing.

It is, however, to be regretted that English has not kept the old symbols for sounds which are very characteristic of the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language. In modern Greek the ancient b (d) has become the voiced spirant (8), though it is still written b. Hence to represent D, Greek has now to resort to the clumsy See also:

DEVICE

device of writing NT instead. (P.

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