Excerpt from Treatise on Phonology: Comprising a Perfect Alphabet for the English Language; A Specimen Exhibition of the Absurdities of Our Present System of Orthography; Comstock's, Pitman's, and the Cincinnati Alphabet, Contrasted; A Lecture on Phonetics, B Prof. McLaine; The Pamphonetico An alphabet to be truly phonetic should not only have a letter appropriated to every articulate sound, but tone marks to represent the various modifications of the voice in reading and speaking. These modifications are accent, inflection, intonation, modulation, force, and time. 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.