Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Articlation. [ARTICLE]

Articlation.

1 K **!r*Su?* Us *M<trulatk>n fat aSgsspgSsi| *KL> ernce of utterance. It still remains tn* that mndi mare imuortanee in attached tnWUMi 11l UCU H*nv leijli* to articulation in England than here; that metre pains Is taken in tnirdng the yenag to habits of dear utterance, and that, on the whole, the English is more conscientiously articulated by educated perms in Emrland than by the hum clflfls in ibis country! We mean by this to say that the consonants are more distinctly and dnly uttered; that, for instance, ‘shrink’ and ‘shrine’ would not, as with na, be softened into srink and arine, ‘suggest’ into wdjest, ‘arms’into alms. On the other hand, there is a tendency in this country to more distinct syllabification and more marked secondSy accent in long words. The §nglish say int’r’sting,’ ‘che’msFnee,’ ‘dietton’ry,’ tripping lightly over all the syllables after theaccezrt|articulsting plainly all the consonants, hot almost diminating the vowels, while we pat e secoddary accent on the penultimate syllable of long wotdfc, and give to tho others as much stress aa to unaccented syllables in short words. It is this peculiarity which brings upon Americans the charge of drawling, aad which Occasions the remark of foreigners that they can understand an American more easily tb«n au Englishman.”