The Pronunciation

—The Pronunciation is given immediately after each word, by the word being spelled anew. In this new spelling, every consonant used has its ordinary unvarying sound, no consonant being employed that has more than one sound . The same sounds are always represented by the same letters, no matter how varied their actual spelling in the language. No consonant used has any mark attached to it, with the one exception of th , which is printed in common letters when sounded as in thick , but in italics when sounded as in th en. Unmarked vowels have always their short sounds, as in lad , led , lid , lot , but , book . The marked vowels are shown in the following line, which is printed at the top of each page:— fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en. The vowel u when marked thus, ü , has the sound heard in Scotch bluid , gude , the French du , almost that of the German ü in Müller . Where more than one pronunciation of a word is given, that which is placed first is more accepted.