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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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ORTHOGRAPHY.

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
rtTHoGRAPHY treats of the formation of words as to sound, letters, syllables and spelling.SOUND. An EvLemMentary Sovunp isa single, indivisible utter-ance of the voice. There .are forty-two elementarysounds in the English language, known as Vocals, Sub-vocals and Aspirates. Vocats are pure, fuli unobstructed sounds of the vocal organs.SuBVOCALS are vocals obstructed in the process of articulation by the vocal organs.ASPIRATES are forced breath-sounds, articulated by the lips, tongue, teeth and palate. Suspvocats and Asprrates. These may be Libials(lip-sounds), Linguals (tongue sounds), Linguals-den-tals (tongue-teeth-sounds), Linguo-nasals (tongue-nosesounds), Palato nasals (palate-nose-sounds), Palatels(palate-sounds.)