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An account, therefore, of the primitive and simple letters, is useless, almost alike to those who know their sound, and those who know it not OF VOWELS A A has three sounds, the slender, open, and broad A slender is found in most words, as face, mane, and in words ending in ation, as creation, salvation, generation The a slender is the proper English a, called very justly by Erpenius in his Arabick Grammar, a Anglicum cum e mistum, as having a middle sound between the open a and the e. The French have a similar sound in the word pais, and in their e masculine A open is the a of the Italian, or nearly resembles it; as father, rather, congratulate, fancy, glass A broad resembles the a of the German; as all, wall, call Many words pronounced with a broad were anciently written with au; as sault, mault; and we still say, fault, vault.— A Grammar of the English Tongue
The a slender is the proper English a, called very justly by Erpenius, in his Arabick Grammar, a Anglicum cum e mistum, as having a middle sound between the open a and the e.— A Grammar of the English Tongue
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