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Hamilton, Frederick William, 1860-

"Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation"

What are the rights and duties of the author in the matter of spelling?
8. What may be done in matter of "reformed" spelling?
9. What is a safe attitude for the commercial printer toward "reformed"
spelling, and why?
10. On what does correct spelling mainly depend?
11. What is the best way to become a good speller?
12. Why is English difficult to pronounce?
13. What is a diphthong?
14. What is a digraph?
15. What are the two sounds each of _c_, _g_, _de_, _th_, and _s_? Give
examples of each.
16. How many letters are there in the English alphabet and how many sounds
do they express?
17. Upon what does correct pronunciation depend?
18. What is a syllable, and of what does it consist?
19. What peculiar use is made of _l_ and _n_ in English?
20. How do we treat the parts of a diphthong or digraph?
21. How do we know whether or not these compounds are diphthongs or
digraphs?
22. What about vowel combinations?
23. With what should a syllable not end?
24. With what should a syllable not begin?
25. What is the rule regarding prefixes and suffixes?
26. How do we treat two or three consonants capable of beginning a
syllable?
27. How do we treat two or three consonants capable of ending a syllable?
28. How do we treat doubled consonants?
29. What is accent?
30. Do words ever have more than one accent, and why?
31. What are the two general rules for the placing of accent?
32.


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