surd
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It offers private, group and corporate surf lessons, as well as an after-school program, surd camps and rentals, according to its website.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
You have made a surd perfectly absurd, and—” “Mr Hasnip!” came from the other end of the great room.
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
It is classed as a surd spirant, its corresponding sonant spirant being v, which is distinguished from f by being pronounced with voice instead of breath, as may be perceived by pronouncing ef, ev.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
S has two sounds, soft, or surd, as in soft and this, and hard, or sonant, as in has and wise.
From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
W is ordinarily pronounced as v, but before surd consonants it has the sound f.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
