Whar you gwine. Where are you going?

Hese in cohoot with me. He is in partnership with me.

Did you get shet of your tobacca?  Did you get rid, or dispose
                                        of, your tobacco?

Who hoped you to sell it?  Who helped you to sell it?

PROSODY.

PROSODY treats of the modulations of the voice according to the usages of the language we speak, and the sentiments we wish to express:  hence, in its most extensive sense, it comprises all the laws of elocution.

Prosody is commonly divided into two parts:  the first teaches the true pronunciation of words, comprising accent, quantity, emphasis, pause, and tone; and the second, the laws of versification.

Accent.  Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a particular letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them; as, in the word presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u and the second syllable, sume, which syllable takes the accent.

Every word of more syllables than one, has one accented syllable.  For the sake of euphony or distinctness in a long word, we frequently give a secondary accent to another syllable besides the one which takes the principal accent; as, ’tes ti mo’ ni’al, a ban’don ’ing.

Quantity.  The quantity of a syllable is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it.  It is considered as long or short.

A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel; which causes it to be slowly joined in pronunciation with the following letters; as, “Fall, bale, mood, house, feature.”

A syllable is short, when the accent is on the consonant; which causes the vowel to be quickly joined to the succeeding letter; “as, ant, bonnet, hunger.”

A long syllable generally requires double the time of a short one in pronouncing it; thus, “mate” and “note” should be pronounced as slowly again as “mat” and “not.”

Emphasis.  By emphasis is meant a stronger and fuller sound of the voice, by which we distinguish some word or words on which we design to lay particular stress, and to show how they affect the rest of the sentence.  Sometimes the emphatic words must be distinguished by a particular tone of voice, as well as by a greater stress.

Emphasis will be more fully explained under the head of Elocution.

Pauses.  Pauses or rests, in speaking and reading, are a total cessation of the voice during a perceptible, and, in many cases, a measurable space of time.

Tones.  Tones are different both from emphasis and pauses; consisting in the modulation of the voice, or the notes or variations of sound which we employ in the expression of our sentiments.