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23 June, 08:50

Match the word to its example.

1. dactyl

in ter vene'

2. anapest

love' ly

3. trochee

re lease'

4. iamb

fur' ni ture

The words with numbers are the ones that must be matched with the words without!

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  1. 23 June, 10:54
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    John Walker, whose name is familiar to every student of the orthoepy of the English language, published his Ehijming Dictionary in 1775, twenty years after the pub - lication of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Lan - guage, and sixteen before the appearance of his own Critical Pronouncing Dictionary. A second edition, however, was not required till 1806, and, as Walker had been an Actor before he became a Teacher of Elocution in London, he natui-ally dedicated his work to David Garrick, to whose pronunciation on the stage, and fre - quent advice in the prosecution of his inquiries, he gratefully acknowledges his obligations for no small measure of whatever merit his work might possess. We have not had an opportunity of ascertaining the dates of all the subsequent editions; but we believe the last was printed in 1851. Walker certainly had the merit of first producing a work of this sort in the English language on such an extensive scale; for the work of Bysshe to which he refers, and of which the fourth edition was printed in 1710, extends to only thirty-six pages, on each of which are four columns of words without accent or explana - tion, which amount to a number between six and seven thousand, whereas the present work may claim the title of a sufficient dictionary of the language. A Tihyming Dictionary^ properly so called, ought to bring together all those words that have the same ter - minal sound, although they may not end in the same letters; but such a collocation would have complicated the difficulty of finding a particular word and excluded some of the other advantages which the present arrange - ment affords. Hence words that are brought together on account of the similarity of their spelling, such as
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