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Pronouncing musical dictionary of technical words, phrases and abbreviations : including definitions of musical terms used by the ancient Hebrews…, 1875
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1RULES
2FOR THE
3PRONUNCIATION OF THE PRINCIPAL MODERN LANGUAGES.
5GERMAN.
7VOWELS.
8A has the sound of ä as in far.
9Au is like ou in house.
10Ai occurs but rarely, and has the sound of I as in pine.
11Ae or ä when long is like ä in mate; when short it is like ě in met.
12Aeu or aü is like oy in boy.
13E has (1) the sound of ě as in help, and (2) the sound of ä in hate.
14Ei has always the sound of I in pine.
15Eu is like oi in loiter.
16I has the sound of i as in pin.
17Ie takes the sound of ě as in tree.
18O has (1) a long sound as in tone, and (2) a short sound as in loss.
19Oe or ö has the sound of ö as in dove.
20U has the sound of oo as in moon.
21Ue or ü has the sound of the French ü.
22Y is used only in foreign words, where it does not differ from i.
24CONSONANTS.
25B and d are pronounced as in English.
26C is only used in foreign words. Before e, i and y it is pronounced like ts; before other vowels and consonants it is like k.
27Ch has nothing corresponding to it in English. It has two sounds; when following a, o, u or au it is a guttural and similar to the Scotch word Loch; but when it occurs after e, ei, i, ä, o, au, eu or ü it has a soft palatal aspirate which may be represented by the combinations kh. At the beginning of words ch is like k.
29Chs is pronounced like ks or x.
30F, l, m, p, t and x are the same as in English.
31G has the hard sound as in got. In some parts of Germany the unaccented, final ig is softened into something like ikh.
32H at the beginning of words is aspirated; between two vowels the aspiration is very weak, and before a consonant or at the end of words it is mute; but in this case it makes the preceding vowel long.
33J is equivalent to the English y in yet, and is always followed by a vowel.
34K is like the English k, but is never mute before n.
35Ng sounds like ng in length; but in compound words where the first ends in n and the last begins with g, they are separated.
36Q is always joined with u, and together they are pronounced like kw.
37Ph has the sound of f.
38Pf unites the two letters in one sound uttered with compressed lips.
39R has a stronger sound than in English, and is the same at the beginning, middle or end of a word.
40S is like the English s. It is sounded at the end of words, and between two vowels it frequently takes the sound of z.
41Sch is like the English sh in ship.
42Th takes always the sound of t; h being silent. It has never the sound of th in thee.
43Tz intensifies the sound of z.
44V is pronounced like f.
45W answers to the English v.
46Z is pronounced like ts in nets.
47In the German words defined and pronounced in this work, the accented syllable, in words of two or more, will be in Italics.
49N. B. For the sake of greater uniformity, most of the German substantives, in the words to be defined in the following pages, are made to conform to English usage by not capitalizing the initial letter,
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