McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book

Lesson 174

Words in which the letter A is often mispronounced. Some of the words in this and succeeding lessons have two pronunciations, but in all cases the preferable one is given.

hearth	mam ma’	an’cient	fra’ter nize
grass	a slant’	la’va	com man dant’
slant	pa pa’	saun’ter	ti a’ra
gape	a las’	pal’frey	al ter’nate
gaunt	al’mond	rap’ine	af fla’tus
far	scath’less	dra’ma	hi a’tus
swathe	pag’eant	la’ma	ba na’na
lance	stal’wart	da’ta	sul ta’na
calm	aft’er	ma’gi	man da’mus
laugh	par’ent	pa’thos	oc ta’vo