Hints to Teachers and Students on the Choice of Geographical Books for Reference and Reading: With Classified ListsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 - 142 páginas |
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Página 51 - A system which would attempt to represent the more delicate inflexions of sound and accent would be so complicated as only to defeat itself. Those who desire a more accurate pronunciation of the written name must learn it on the spot by a study of local accent and peculiarities. 5. The broad features of the system are : — (a) That vowels are pronounced as in Italian and consonants as in English.
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Página 50 - ... to carry it out in respect to names of native origin. Even more important, however, than these adhesions is the recent action of the Government of the United States of America, which, after an exhaustive inquiry, has adopted a system in close conformity with that of the...
Página 50 - For it was felt not only that such a task would be impossible, but that an attempt to provide for such niceties would defeat the object. The adoption by others of the system thus settled has been more general than the Council ventured to hope. The charts and maps issued by the Admiralty and War Office have been, since 1885, compiled and extensively revised in accordance with it The Foreign and Colonial Offices have accepted it, and the latter has communicated with the Colonies requesting them to...
Página 51 - Travellers," and by other means, have endeavoured to ensure that all travellers connected with the Society should be made aware of them ; but as it is possible that some bodies and persons interested in the question may still be in ignorance of their existence and general acceptance, they feel that the time has come to again publish them as widely as possible, and to take every means in their power to aid the progress of the reform. To this end, and with a view to still closer uniformity in geographical...
Página 49 - British maps with regard to the spelling of geographical names, in consequence of the variety of systems of orthography used by travellers and others to represent the sound of native place-names in different parts of the world, formally adopted the general principle which had been long used by many, and the recognition of which had been steadily gaining ground, viz. that in writing geographical native names vowels should have their Italian significance, and consonants that which they have in the...
Página 50 - ... even in our own language is frequently mispronounced, — how much more with words of languages utterly unknown to the reader. The same necessity does not arise in most continental languages. In them a definite combination of letters indicates a definite sound, and each nation consequently has spelt foreign words in accordance with the orthographic rules of its own language. It was therefore not anticipated that foreign nations would effect any change in the form of orthography used in their...
Página 51 - Mecca, etc., will be retained in their present form. 3. The true sound of the word, as locally pronounced, will be taken as the basis of the spelling. 4. An approximation, however, to the sound is alone aimed at. A system which would attempt to represent the more delicate...
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