An Outline of English Speech-craft

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Barnes William. An Outline of English Speech-craft

FORE-SAY

SPEECH-CRAFT

THINGS AND THING-NAMES

SUCHNESS OR QUALITIES,

TIME-TAKING

-ING Root-words (strong)

Under-Sundrinesses of Time-takings

Fitting of the Time-word to all the cases of Person, Time, and Mood

Things and Time-takings

THOUGHT-WORDING, SPEECH-WORDING,

WORDS OF SPEECH-CRAFT, AND OTHERS, ENGLISHED

The Goodness of a Speech

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Speech-craft (Grammar), called by our Saxon fore-fathers Staef-craeft or Letter-craft, is the knowledge or skill of a speech.

The science of speech in the main, as offmarked from any one speech (Philology), may be called Speech-lore.

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None (Saxon na-an, no one) should have a singular verb – ‘None is (not are) always happy.’

Some mark-words are for a clear outmarking (as single or somely) of things outshown from among others.

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