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Lecture III "And the first and amost important princible which we have to notice, the one which lies at the bottom of nearly all phonetic change in language, is the tendency, already alluded to and briefly illustrated in our first lecture, to make the work of utterance easier to the speaker, to put a more facile in the stead of a more difficult word in combination of sounds, and to get rid altogether of what is unnecessary in the words we use." The ancient tongue from which one English is the remote descendant inflected it's nouns, one to tautive and subjective, in their ????, each containing eight each. Of the meusers, the Anglo-Saxon had almost wholly given up me, the dual retaining only scanty relics of it in the pronouns,
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and, of the cases, it had ? case ? ? - the nominative, genitive dative, and accusative - with traces of a fifth, the instrumental." - Page 189 "The seat of "euphony," as we somewhat mistakenly term it, is in the mouth, not in the ear; words are changed in phonetic ?, not according to the impression they make upon the organ of hearing, but according to the action which they call for in the organ of speaking; ? ological, not acoustic relations ? how sounds shall pass with one another in the process of linguistic growth."
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