McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader

Substitutes

Substitutes are characters used to represent sounds ordinarily represented by other characters.

Table of Substitutes

Substitute	for	as in	Substitute	for	as in
a	o	what	y	i	hymn
e	a	there	c	s	cite
e	a	freight	c	k	cap
i	e	police	ch	sh	machine
i	e	sir	ch	k	chaos
o	u	son	g	j	cage
o	oo	to	n	ng	rink
o	oo	would	s	z	rose
o	a	corn	s	ah	sure
o	u	work	x	gz	examine
u	oo	pull	gh	f	laugh
u	oo	rude	ph	f	sylph
y	i	my	qu	k	pique
qu	kw	quick

Faults to Be Remedied

DIRECTION.—Give to each sound, to each syllable, and to each word its full, distinct, and appropriate utterance.

For the purpose of avoiding the more common errors under this head, observe the following rules:

RULE II.—Avoid the omission of unaccented vowels.

Examples

Incorrect	Correct	Incorrect	Correct
Sep’rate	sep-a-rate	Ev’dent	ev-i-dent
met-ric’l	met-ric-al	mem’ry	mem-o-ry
‘pear	ap-pear	‘pin-ion	o-pin-ion
com-p’tent	com-pe-tent	pr’pose	pro-pose
pr’cede	pre-cede	gran’lar	gran-u-lar
‘spe-cial	es-pe-cial	par-tic’lar	par-tic-u-lar

RULE III.—Avoid sounding incorrectly the unaccented vowels.