arm, father.

"ant, and final a in America, armada, etc. In rapid speech this vowel readily becomes more or less obscured and like the neutral vowel or a short u (ă).

final, regal, where it is of a neutral or obscure quality.

"all, fall.

elate, evade.
end, pet.
The characters ě, a, and ȧ
are used for & in German, as in Gärt-
ner, Gräfe, Hähnel, to the values of
which they are the nearest English
vowel sounds. The sound of Swedish
ä is also indicated by ě.

"fern, her, and as i in sir. Also for ö,

oe, in German, as in Göthe, Goethe, Ortel, Oertel, and for eu and oeu in French, as in Neufchâtel, Crèvecœur; to which it is the nearest English vowel sound.

agency, judgment, where it is of a neutral or obscure quality.

"orb, nor.

"odd, forest, not.

atom, carol, where it has a neutral or obscure quality.

oil, boil, and for eu in German, as in

Feuerbach.

food, fool, and as u in rude, rule.

"house, mouse.

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"unite.

"6 cut, but.

"full, put, or as oo in foot, book. Also for i in German, as in München, Müller, and u in French, as in Buchez, Budé; to which it is the nearest English vowel sound.

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urn, burn.

yet, yield.

"the Spanish Habana, Cordoba, where it is like a v made with the lips alone, instead of with the teeth and lips. chair, cheese.

the German Landtag, and ch in Feuerbach, buch; where it is a guttural sound made with the back part of the tongue raised toward the soft palate, as in the sound made in clearing the throat.

as j in the Spanish Jijona, g in the Spanish gila; where it is a fricative somewhat resembling the sound of h in English hue or y in yet, but stronger. wh in which. ch in the German ich, Albrecht, and g in the German Arensberg, Mecklen burg; where it is a fricative sound made between the tongue and the hard palate toward which the tongue is raised. It resembles the sound of h in hue, or y in yet; or the sound made by beginning to pronounce a k, but not completing the stoppage of the breath. The character K is also used to indicate the rough aspirates or fricatives of some of the Oriental languages, as of kh in the word Khan.

zh as z in azure, and s in pleasure.

An apostrophe ['] is sometimes used to denote a glide or neutral connecting vowel, as in tā'b'l (table), kǎz”m (chasm).

Otherwise than as noted above, the letters used in the respellings for pronunciation are to receive their ordinary English sounds.

When the pronunciation is sufficiently shown by indicating the accented syllables, this is done without respelling: as in the case of very common English words, and words which are so spelled as to insure their correct pronunciation if they are correctly accented. See the article on PRONUN

CIATION.

CASTE.

Professor James Morton Paton.

CEPHALOPODA.

Mr. Gilbert Van Ingen.

CERVANTES.

Dr. Frederic Taber Cooper.

CEYLON.

Professor A. V. W. Jackson and others. CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY. Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay.

CHAUTAUQUA.

Professor Paul Monroe.

CHICAGO.

Mr. Albert Robbins Sabin.

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.

Professor Edward Bradford Titchener. CHINESE EMPIRE.

Mr. Henry Gannett, Professor Edwin A. Start, Dr. William Elliot Griffis, Professor Alexander F. Chamberlain, and others.

CHOLERA.

CHOPIN.

Dr. Albert Warren Ferris.

Mr. Gustav Kobbé. CHORAL SOCIETIES.

Professor Alfred Remy.

CHRISTIANITY.

Dr. Frank Hugh Foster.