John Hart, A Method or Comfortable Beginning for all Unlearned, whereby they may be Taught to Read English (1570)
Date
1570
Author
I.
H.(alternate name for
John
Hart
)
Book title
A Methode or comfortable beginning for all vnlearned, whereby they may be taught to read English, in a very short time, with pleasure: So profitable as straunge, put in light, by I.H. Chester Heralt
Publication place
London
Publisher
Henry Denham
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- grammar
- hard words
Summary
Discusses and lists strange English terms (A3); some logical definitions of lexical terms (C1r)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A sillable is that word, or part of worde, which is spoken roundly togither, without any stay of sounde (c1r)
sample: A sillable is that word, or part of worde, which is spoken roundly togither, without any stay of sounde (c1r)
Alston
VI. 520
STC
12889
Modern editions
Hart, John. John Hart's Works on English Orthography and Pronunciation, 1551, 1569, 1580. Ed. Bror A. Danielsson. Stockholm Studies in English, 5 and 11. Stockholm: n.p., 1955-63.
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Criticisms
Salmon, Vivian. "John Hart and the Beginnings of Phonetics in Sixteenth-century England." Perspectives on English: Studies in Honour of Professor Emma Vorlat. Eds. Keith Carlon, Kristin Davidse, and Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. Orbis Supplementa Tome 2. Leuven and Paris: Peeters, 1994. 1-20.
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ESTC
S116666
