Solemn style, as distinguished from the familiar,
    —­should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar,
    —­is not adapted to familiar discourse,
    —­pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered,
    —­examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE,
      conjugated.

Some, classed,
    —­vulg. used for somewhat, or in some degree, ("SOME longer,”
      SANB.). Somehow or other, somewhere or other, what the
      construc. Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere, &c., their class, and how
      should be written.

Sort, see Kind.

Sound, of a letter, commonly called its power,
    —­elementary, of the voice, defined.
    —­Sounds, simp. or primary, numb. in Eng.,
    —­elementary, what meant by; are few in numb.; their combinations may
      be innumerable.
    —­Vowel sounds, or vocal elements, how produced, and where heard;
      what those in Eng., and how may be modified in the format. of
      syllables; do., how may be written, and how uttered.
    —­Consonant sounds, simp., in Eng., how many, and what; by what
      letters marked; in what words heard.
    —­Sounds, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them.
    —­Sounds, a knowledge of, how acquired,
    —­importance of being early taught to pronounce those of one’s native
      lang. 
    —­Passage exemplifying all the letters, and all the SOUNDS, in Eng.
    —­Sounds of the Letters, treated.

Speak, to speak, what is meant by.

Speaker, why often speaks of himself in the third pers.,
    —­represents himself and others by we,
    —­in Eng., should mention himself last. 
    —­The elegant speaker, by what distinguished.

Species and figure of words, what so called,
    —­unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the
      latter. Species and genus of things, how admits limitation by the
      article.

SPELLING, defined.
    —­Spelling, how to be acquired,
    —­cause of the difficulty of its acquisition,
    —­Rules for,
    —­usage, as a law of,
    —­uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained. 
    —­The right spelling of a word, what, PHILOLOG.  Mus.
    —­Oral spelling, how should be conducted. 
    —­Charac. of BROWN’S rules for spelling.

Spondee, defined.

St, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modem contrac. of the syllable est.

Standards of English orthog., the books proposed as such, abound in
errors and inconsistencies. 
    —­Whether we have a system of Eng.  ORTHOEPY worthy to be accounted a
      STANDARD.