A tool many striving poets would have loved back when poetry had to rhyme. Muthmann lists English words by their end syllable and the sound of it. For example the entry -izzle is noted as being pronounced -izl and lists fizzle, drizzle, frizzle, grizzle, and sizzle. The pronunciation and part of speech are indicated for each word, but no further information is provided. Needless to say the entry for -tion is pages long. His purpose is not, however, or help fledgling Shakespeares, but to allow linguists to find patterns within the language that would not otherwise be apparent. The appendices survey spelling-to-sound correspondences in word endings in strict reverse alphabetical order and sound-to-spelling correspondences in word endings in reverse order of the phonetic alphabet. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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