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to the merry tinkling of the
bells, and see the snow
glistening in the sun like diamonds.
m’eri t’ingkling ĕv dhĕ b’elzr
ĕn s’ih dhĕ sn’åo gl’isning in
dhĕ s’an laik d’aiĕmĕndz.
26. Geographical Words.
Names of countries:
Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Finland, England, Scotland,
Ireland, France, Germany,
America, Italy, Switzerland,
Holland, Spain, China, Japan.
Substantives: a Swede, a
Norwegian, a Dane, a Frnn,
a German, an American, an
Italian, a Spaniard. All these
take -s in the plural: five
Swedes, the Norwegians etc.
Those ending in -s have the
same form both in the singular
and the plural: a Swiss, a
Chinese, a Japanese. In the
plural; the Swiss, the Chinese,
the Japanese. Those ending
in -man change -man into -men:
an Englishman, two
Englishmen, a Scotchman, many
Scotchmen, an Irishman, a
Dutchman etc.
Adjectives: Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, Finnish,
English, Scotch, French,
German, American, Italian, Swiss,
Dutch, Spanish, Chinese,
Japanese. The following
adjectives are also used as sub-
26. Dzjiågr’äfikĕl w’öhdz.
N’eimz ĕv k’antriz:
Sw’ihdn, n’åhwei, d’enmahk,
f’inlĕnd, ’ingglĕnd, sk’åtlĕnd,
’aiĕlĕnd, fr’ahns, dzj’öhmĕni,
em’erikĕ, ’itĕli, sw’itsĕlĕnd,
h’ålĕnd, sp’ein, tsj’ainĕ,
dzjĕ-p’än.
S-abstĕntivz: ĕ sw’ihd, ĕ
nåhw’ihdzjĕn, ĕ d’ein, ĕ fin,
ĕ dzj’öhmĕn, ĕn ĕm’erikĕn, ĕn
it’äliĕn, ĕ sp’änjĕd. ’Ahl dh’ihz
teik ’es (-s) in dhĕ pl’oĕrĕl:
f’aiv sw’ihdz, dhĕ nåhw’ihdzjĕnz
ets’etrĕ. Dh’åoz ’ending in’es
(s) hav dhĕ s’eim f’åhm b’åoth
in dhĕ s’inggjolĕr ĕn dhĕ
pl’oĕrĕl: ĕ sw’is, ĕ tsj’ain’ihz, ĕ
dzjäpĕn’ihz. In dhĕ pl’oĕrĕl:
dhĕ sw’is, dhĕ tsj’ain’ihz, dhĕ
dzjäpĕn’ihz. Dh’åoz ’ending
in m’än, tsj’einzj m’än, inte
m’en: ĕn ’ingglisjmĕn, t’oh
’ingglisjmĕn, ĕ sk’åtsjmĕn,
m’enisk’åtsjmĕn, ĕn’aiĕrisjmĕn,
ĕ d’atsjmĕn ets’etrĕ.
’Ädzjiktivz: sw’ihdisj,
nåhw’ihdzjĕn, d’einisj, finisj,
’ingglisj, sk’åtsj, fr’ensj,
dzj’öhmĕn, ĕm’erikĕn, it’äliĕn, sw’is,
d’atsj, sp’änisj, tsj’ain’ihz,
dzjäpĕn’ihz. Dhĕ f’ålåing
’ädzjik-tivz a ’åhlså j’ohzd ĕz s’ab-
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