Charles E. Sprague

“ Two vowels coming together are sounded in separate syllables ; as laut (la-ut) , geil (gay-eel) , sied (see-aid) .
In writing and printing Volapük a system of punctuation is employed which differs slightly from ours, as follows:
The quotation-marks are ,,---'' instead of "---". ”

“ In our language we print
In this book, we print Volapük words and sentences in heavier type.
In learning to pronounce Volapük, the first difficulty is to avoid sounding the vowels a e i o u like their English names A E I O U.
Always think of them and speak of them by their Volapük names. Originally they had the same sounds in English.
Read them over carefully seyeral times, then drop the p sound and repeat
The adding of another consonant at the end does not change the vowel sound ; therefore, pet is pronounced pate (not pet) ; pit is pronounced pete (not pit) ”