Words Containing Long Vowels

Continued. - See paragraphs 34 to 38.

In writing this exercise the pupil must pay no attention to the usual spelling of a word, but simply to its sound when deliberately pronounced. Write lay, shay and ray unless /, sh and r are printed with an italic letter, when el, ish andar should be used.

Me, may, nay, no, gnaw, see, say, bee, bay, bah, tea, toe, pay, day, do, though, haw, paw, eat, hay, oat, ate, ale, owes, ooze, each, chew, team, hoe, jaw, meek, peak, poke, name, came, babe, balk, both, mail, bathe, peel, Paul, beam, teach, maim, teeth, tale, boat, tall, fade, deep, peep, shade, shape, shave, sheep, daub, deal, beak, dale, also, below, detail, vacate, dado, aid, caw, daw, ease, cheek, gnawed, heap, jay, rage.

Dictation Exercise

Ace, ache, age, ail, aim, ape, awed, awes, awl, bail, bait, bake, bale, ball, bajb, barge, beach, beat, became, bedaub, belay, beneath, bole, bought, bow, bowl, cage, cake, caked, cape, caulk, caulked, cawed, chalk, cheap, choke, coach, coal, cocoa, code, coke, comb, coo, cope, cork, dame, date, debauch, decay, deem, defame, delay, depot, doe, doge, dole, dome, dote, dough, eel, eke, elope, Esau, eve, evoke, evoked, fa, faith, fame, fay, fee, feed, female, fief, Fiji, foam, foe, folk, forego, foresee, forge, fork, form, forth, gage, gale, gall, Galway, game, gay, go, goal, goat, gorge, heath, heed, jail, Jew, Jerome, Job, Joe, joke, jole, kale, keel, keep, key, keyed, knave, knee, laid, lathe, lave, law, lay, lea, leach, leaf, leal, leap, leash, leave, Leech, Leith, Lethe, liege, loaf, loath, loathe, lobe, lope, low, lowed, ma, mail-coach, make, Malay, male, mall, Maumee, maw, May-day, may-pole, meal, Mobile, mole, mope, moped, moth, mow, nape, neap, neigh, neighed, oaf, oak, oath, oatmeal, obey, ode, off, opaque, Osage, own, pa, page, paid, pail, pall, pawed, pay-day, pea, peach, peal, peeped, peerage, Phcebe, poach, pole, pope, porch, pork, potato, saw, shah, shake, shale, s/iame, shawl, Shawnee, she, sheaf, .sheath, sheathe, sheave, shoal, shoe, show, .showed, sow (v.), tail, take, talk, tame, tape, teak, teem, teethe, thaw, thawed, theme, they, thief, thieve, thong, thonged, toll, tomato, tome, torch, tow, vague, veto, vetoed, vogue, wade, wage, wait, wake, wave, waved, weak, weigh, weighed, weight, woe, woke, woo, wove, wreath, wreathe, wrong, wronged, Yale, yale, yea.