Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	sound_n	sound_v	vowel_n	34	3	15.8468	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19762	Orthoepia Anglicana: or, the first principall part of the English grammar teaching the art of right speaking and pronouncing English, with certaine exact rules of orthography, and rules of spelling or combining of syllables, and directions for keeping of stops or points between sentence and sentence. A work in it selfe absolute, and never knowne to be accomplished by any before ... Methodically composed by the industry and observation of Simon Daines schoolemaster of Hintlesham in Suffs.	Daines, Simon.	1640 (1640)	STC 6190; ESTC S109244	58,215	112

in due true ensue c. where as in many places else E serves but as an unnecessary Servitour as shall hereafter be shewed Y which as a single Letter we call Wi hath in a manner the same force with the Vowell I and in the end of a word may indifferently be written in lieu of I or rather Ie for indeed we with the Dutch have learned to make a shadow of the substance of many Letters as in merry or merrie mercie or mercy and the like and is most generally used in Monosyllables or words of one syllable where it sounds I long as in my thy by why which are alwayes written with Y the rest be indifferent as ty or tie c. But in the beginning or middle of a word it is seldome and that lesse properly inserted as a Vowell unlesse in some few words derived from the Greeke expressed by ypsilon or proper names which in all Tongues be irregular For the derivation of it the word Symptome can testifie sufficiently from whence we had it Notwithstanding I know there are who would deduce it from II double whose sound they say it beares contractivè as Yet quasi II et c. But this I referre to the judgment of the Reader As a Consonant it hath a peculiar power which expect in its proper place In the meane time let this suffice for Vowels in particular Of Dipthongs or the combinations of two Vowels in one syllable WHen two Vowels be comprehended together in one syllable they be called Dipthongs wherefore a Dipthong may be defined The combination or as some have it the comprehension of two Vowels together in one syllable either of them retaining a force in pronunciation Or briefly thus A Dipthong is the contraction of two Vowels which better suits our English Tongue by reason we have some Dipthongs where one Vowell loseth its faculty in the pronunciation of the other The word Dipthong which the Latines call Dipthongus is derived according to Calepine and Johannes de Janua à {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vel {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sonus vel qui proprie Vocalis est sonus Et est saith one conglutinatio duarum vocalium vim suam servantium c. The number of Dipthongs and their manner of pronunciation THere belong to our English Tongue eighteene Dipthongs viz. 1 aa as in Baal Isaac 2 ai as in Faire Despaire 3 au as in Laud Applaud 4 ea as in Feare Speake 5 ee as in Feed Bleed 6 ei as in Receive Weight 7 eo as in Jeopardy Geometry George 8 eu as in Rheume Eustace 9 ie as in Field Friend 10 oa as in Boat Goale 11 oe as in Toe Shoe Phoenix Foelicity 12 oi as in Void Joine 13 oo as in Good Food 14 ou as in Bloud Gourd 15 ua as in Guard Quake 16 ue as in Guerdon 17 ui as in Quire Build 18 uo as in Quoth Ae we never have in English but onely in such words as be meerely Latin though drest in an English garb as in Praeheminent praevalent c. Praeamble similia and is most usually written in this figure ę The first to wit Aa we onely use in Proper names and words derived from the Hebrew Ai we pronounce according to the Latin as in faire c. excepting haire which we sound as if it were written hare but a little brisker or rather like heare and the verb say which we for brevity sake call sa and saist as sest saith as sath said as sed the Latin Conjunction c. though irregularly Au the Dipthong we usually sound after the manner of the Latine au except in baume the herb where it sounds A as the French pronounce it full Ea we sound like the Latin E and it is alwaies proper or invariable onely in Phleagme which we borrow of the Greeke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it is for the most part sounded with E short and G omitted as in Phleme Ee is alwaies the same in pronunciation with the Greek γ and the Latin I as I said in the Vowels Ei we generally pronounce like the Latin Ai with little difference of sound as in receive streight c. And what force the Latines give to their Ei Dipthong wee attribute the same in effect to our single I as in the Vowels is said where note wee abusively sound the word Heire or eritour ritour like Aire unaspirate and full as if there were no difference of Letters But where Gh succeeds the Dipthong is sounded shorter and Gh loseth all its faculty as weight quasi wait c. Some pronounce Ei like Ea in many words and for the same purpose write it so too but altogether against rule or authority as receave for receive conceave for conceive c. especially where it precedeth V. Eo we pronounce in jeopardy and Leopard with the om●ssion of O in Geometry with the losse of E and G different from it selfe in power when it goes before O calling it jometry short Only in Geography this Dipthong is proper and in it selfe complete but we make little use of it other then in the foure words here recited Eu beares the same force with the Latin Eu in words from thence derived or proper names as in Eustace but in words originally English we for the most part sound it like u single without the E as in Rheume quasi Rume c. Ie differs little in sound from the Latin I and our Ee Dipthong as in field chiefe Shrieve which is truly written Sheriffe siege c. where we pronounce E long without any I at all and friend where E short c. But you must observe by the way that this Dipthong never happens in the beginning of a word or syllable for then is J alwaies a Consonant and never a Vowell whereby it cannot compose a Dipthong which is the combination of two Vowels Oa sounds generally after the Greeke Omega with the losse of A as in boat coale c. Goale or prison is thus truely written but pronounced like Jaile Oe in the end of a word as for the most part it seldome happens else in words meerely English though usuall in the Latine and such as wee immediately derive from thence is the same in pronunciation with O single as in Toe c. except shoe which sounds shoo as some pronounce the Greeke Dipthong Ov and Phoenix foelicity c. where it followes the Latine bearing chiefly the force of E. Oi is originally derived from the Greek whose faculty in pronunciation it truely retaines with us as in void destroid joine c. But in many words which wee take from the French it imitates more their pronunciation which a little differs and but a little as in purloine c. where it inclines more to our I though with somewhat a flatter or more dull sound Ou differs much in pronunciation In bound