Excerpt from On Early English Pronunciation, With Special Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, Vol. 2: On the Pronunciation of the Xiiith and Previous Centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, With Chronological Tables of the Value of Letters and Expressions of Sound in English Writing The Expression of the Sounds, pp. 589 - 606. Historical Phonetic Spelling, pp. 606 - 618. Etymological Spelling, pp. 618 - 621. Standard or Typographical Spelling, pp. 621 - 623. Standard Pronunciation, pp. 624 - 632. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.