First Course of English Phonetics

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. One of the greatest difficulties for those who take up the study of phonetics is clearly to recognize that sounds have identities Of their own as quite distinct from the letters of the conventional alphabet. For them the various sounds are abstractions, bewilderingly strange and elusive.