Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Часть 1

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Smithsonian Institution, 1886
Report for 1915 includes article by Louis Agassiz Fuertes titled "Impressions of the voices of tropical birds," p. 299-323.

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Стр. 545 - stress." (7) Every letter is pronounced. When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result, when spoken quickly, is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai, an, ei.
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