Excerpt from The First Five Hundred Days of a Child's Life<br><br>A complete list of the words used independently and the child's pronunciation of each is appended. That they might be classified it was necessary to reduce them to their elementary sounds, and to adopt a system of diacritical marking.<br><br>Table I explains this system, gives the day on which each elementary sound was introduced and the number of times it was used in different syllables.<br><br>Table II gives the words whose pronunciation was bettered from time to time with date of first use and date of changes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.