Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	call_v	name_n	time_n	10,666	5	3.4709	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07997	The order of orthographie: or, Sixty sixe rules shortly directing to the true writing, speaking, and pronouncing the English tongue. Necessary for all sorts, for want wherof strangers blame our English tongue of difficultie: many of our owne nation speake it corruptly, many write it falsely, and many are discouraged from learning to write it; and others that can write are ashamed to write to their best friends..	Prat, Jos. (Joseph).	1622 (1622)	STC 20186.7; ESTC S94773	4,234	17

after y as by 36 Secondly it is vsed to draw the syllable long as may be seene by the difference betweene these words man and mane mill and mile hid and hide 37 Thirdly it both draweth the syllable long and changeth the sound of these letters c u g as pac is sounded like pak but pace like pase so rag rage hau haue and if d be put before g the syllable is pronounced short as ledge lodge c. 37 For more distinct pronunciation marke that which the Gramarians call accent which is the lifting vp of the voice higher in one syllable then in another as to offer incense to incense or prouoke 38 Thus much for letters and syllables and their pronunciation now for the deuiding of long words of many syllebles the generall rule is ordinarily to marke how many vowels a word hath so many syllables it hath as re-ge-ne-ra-ti-on 39 First except such words where e is little or not at all pronounced in the ende of the word as madde made hide c. 40 Secondly dipthongs as vaine may our 41 Thirdly words ending in es as Iames hones names hides 42 Lastly after qu and g as quicke languag● 43 Marke next for your diuision of words if you haue two vowels come together and both fully pronounced you must put the first to the former syllable and the next to the latter as auoy-ance tri-umph mutu-all 44 But heere take heede of deuiding the vowels ea as some corruptly doe pronouncing Whe-at me-at be-ans pe-ase for Wheat mea● beans pease 45 When the middle Consonant is doubled deuide them as com-mon com-mand let-ter ac-cord 46 Except they be needlesly doubled in words of the plurall number as plumms for plums hills for hils 47 Thus much for deuision of words and syllables for your more distinct writing and reading obserue those markes called stayes or stops in reading which are three 48 The first betokeneth a small stay and is called a Comma and marked thus 49 The second sheweth a longer stay and is called a Colon is thus marked The third is marked thus with one point and sheweth a full and perfect stop or stay as if the sentence were ended and it is named a Period 51 When a question is asked in writing it is noted with this marke called an Interogation 52 When some words may be left out of a sentence and yet the sence perfect it is marked thus and called a Parenthesis as suffer me I pray you a little whil● 53 When a word endeth and the next beginneth with a vowell the ending vowell is sometime left out and both the words ioyned together as thintent for the intent which exactly should be written with a marke called Apostrophu● thus th' intent 54 For your more commendable writing begin alwaies the Sentence with a great letter and likewise the names of Persons Places and Times as Robert London April Likewise when you put a letter for a word as B. for Bishop L. for Lord and ordinarily when you put a letter for a number as V. for fiue X. for tenne L. for fiftie C. for an hundred D. for fiue hundred M. for a Thousand 55 Next take heed of the barbarous speech of the common people as of writing or pronouncing yarbs for herbs stompe for stampe Dater for Daughter twonty for twenty Feale and Fineger for Veale and Vineger and such like 56 Marke further that some letters must be written but not pronounced in some words 57 As C. ordinarily when it comes before k is not pronounced as backe packe Rocke where it only makes the syllable short 58 G is not pronounced in signe resigne flegme soueraigne 59 H in Ghost Iohn p in receipt nor s in Isle and many such like which you must marke by reading with obseruation 60 Note that all words that may haue this Article a or the put before them are called Nounes or names of things as a Man the house 61 And whereas I spake before of words of the plurall number note that in Nounes there be two numbers the single or singuler number which speaketh but of one as a Man the House a Tree and such like And the plurall which speaketh of more then one as houses men trees 62 The plurall number is made by putting s to the singuler as one pot many pots a Iewell two Iewels 63 Except words ending in fe which make the plurall by changing into ves as wife wiues knife kniues Calfe Calues 64 Some plurals vary or change from all rule as a man two men a brother brethren so Oxen teeth feete kine lice mice And some that make the singuler and the plurall all one as a sheepe two sheepe one mile twentie mile 65 The singuler and the plurall haue ordinarily syllables alike except words ending in ce ch g dg s or sh as graces places Churches cages hedges roses fishes 66 Note last of all when the Article a or my come before a word beginning with a vowell you must change a into an and my into mine as an Oxe mine or thine Oxe FINIS