Pronunciation of the English word compartments.
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1. | Train compartments soon get cramped. | |
2. | The bureau drawer has several compartments. | |
3. | The ship hull is divided into watertight compartments. | |
4. | The R.M.S. Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments. | |
5. | The SS Star of the North was a large schooner-rigged cargo steamer, strongly built of iron in watertight compartments, and of nearly two thousand horsepower. | |
6. | It'll soon be winter, so I'm taking warm things from the top compartments of the wardrobe and putting them somewhere further down. | |
7. | The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? |