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OBS.-A stammerer should bear in mind three things: (1) Let him take a full breath; (2) beat time to the rhythm of his sentence; and (3) speak slowly.

No. IV.

LISTS FOR PRACTICE ON THE COMBINATIONS OF

CONSONANTAL SOUNDS.

1. Consonantal combinations of P :

1-p. help, pulp, yelp, scalp.
m-p. damp, stamp, cramp, shrimp.

r-p.

s-p.

sharp, carp, harp, chirp, usurp.

lisp, crisp, wisp, sprinkle, speak.

p-1. plain, plod, plough, people, ample, temple.

p-n.

p-r.

p-s.

open, ripen, happen, sharpen.

pray, press, prism, reprieve, prove, prowl.
perhaps, grapes, wasps.

p-t. dipped, slipt, leapt.

p-th. depth.

2. Consonantal combinations of B:

1-b. alb, bulb.

m-b. succumb, rhomb.

r-b. barb, verb, orb, curb.

b-d. barbed, webbed, ribbed, curbed.
b-1. blame, bleat, blight, bloom, able.
b-u. buoy, buoyant.

b-z. babes, ebbs, gibes, robes, tubes.

3. Consonantal combinations of T:

f-t. raft, shaft, gift, left, loft, soft, tuft.
k-t. act, locked, mulct, picked.

l-t.

malt, melt, gilt, bolt, fault.

t-n. kitten, flatten, smitten, written.

t-r. train, straight, try, trouble, truck.

t-s. acts, pots, pits, mulets, hosts, posts, insists.
t-sh. chair (ch=tsh), church, stretch, fetch.
t-w. twine, twist, twittle, twattle.

4. Consonantal combinations of D:-
b-d. barbed, stabbed, disturbed, probed.
g-d. digged, begged, fatigued.

1-d. railed, wild, bold, sold, told.

m-d. blamed, seemed, alarmed, stormed.
n-d. strand, blend, behind, bond, rescind.
ng-d. twanged, harangued.

r-d. lard, lord, herd, gird.

dh-d. bathed, breathed, wreathed.

v-d.

depraved, heaved, proved, loved, resolved.

z-d. glazed, grazed, buzzed, mused.

zh-d. managed (g=dzh), hedged, pledged, dodged.

d-1.

d-n.

d-r.

ladle, needle, idle, handle, bundle.

garden, hidden, trodden.

drake, dread, drive, drop.

d-th. width, breadth, hundredth, thousandth.

d-w.

dz.

dwindle, dwell, dwelling.

aids, ends, sands, bonds, goods. d-zh. gem (g=dzh), age, oblige, huge.

5. Consonantal combinations of K :-
1-k. elk, milk, silk, bulk.

ng-k. ink (n=ng), brink, blank, sunk.
r-k. ark, spark, smirk, pork, work.
s-k. scale, scheme, sky, school, scowl
k-l. claim, clean, climb, obstacle.

k-n

k-r.

spoken, sicken, quicken, bacon.

crag, cream, crest, crime, cross, crowd.
k-t. asked, masked, baked, kicked, tusked.
k-s. cakes, kicks, strikes, mix (x=ks).

k-sh. anxious (n=ng, x=k-sh), luxury, connection.
k-w. quake, queen, quill, quiver, quire.