"Phonetically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... text it is not clear whether the author intended hacek (Unicode "caron", angled) or breve (curved). Breve was used in the utf-8 versions of this document, as it is phonetically plausible and the characters are more widely available. Hacek is used here because the bracketed form [va] is less ambiguous visually than the ...
— Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico • John Wesley Powell
... is phonetically the same as the word used in German for gladness, he was considered the patron of every joy, and was invariably invoked by married couples who wished to live in harmony. Those who succeeded in doing so for a certain ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... in the colonial records. Through the mistakes of clergymen, court clerks, registrars, and others who had difficulty in pronouncing Gaelic names, letters became inserted or dropped and the names were written down phonetically. In the mutations of time, even these names became still further changed, and we find that the descendants of the Irish themselves, after the lapse of a generation or two, deliberately changed their names, usually by suppressing the ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
... the symbol is purely ideographic and not phonetic or ikonomatic; but this does not forbid the idea that when used in other combinations it is used phonetically to give the chief sound element of the word indicated by the ideograph. Dr Seler claims, as corroborative of his supposition, that "all symbols which are combined with the name of the third character are to be fully explained through the word ...
— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas
... for "banana" is "saguing," which is thus almost identical with the Mindanaon term as reported phonetically ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 • Various |
