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| | Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
 | | But since then, chiefly under the influence of German philologists, they have turned from orthographical futilities to the actual sounds of the tongue, and the latest and best grammar, that of Sweet, is frankly based upon, the spoken English of educated Englishmennot, remember, of conscious purists, but of the general body of cultivated folk. |
 | | The chief movement in American, in truth, would seem to be toward throwing the accent upon the first syllable. |
 | | An American sounds every syllable in extraordinary, literary, military, dysentery, temporary, necessarily, secretary and the other words of the -ary-group; 13 an Englishman never pronounces the a of the penultimate syllable. |
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