Anonymous, Friendly Advice to the Corrector of the English Press at Oxford concerning the English Orthography (1682)
Date
1682
Author
Book title
Friendly Advice To The Correctour Of The English Press At Oxford Concerning the English Orthographie
Publication place
London
Publisher
Robert Clavell
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- branded words
- spelling
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Very few (I confess) are the corruptions you make instead of corrections, by additions, yet one I shall name in your Government of the Tongue, as Sciencies for Sciences, generally received; because surely it was neer enough the Latine Tongue before: and therefore, hereafter by the same reason we must also write Instancies, and experiencies, and ignorancies, for our usual, Instances, experiences, and ignorances: Nay, we must go through the work of reforming, and in the singular number also, write Sciencie for Science, and instancie for instance, and experiencie for experience. For our Language (as I shall shew by and by) requires nothing more, generally to the making a Noun Substantive plural, of a singular, but the addition of a single s. (p. 6)
sample: Very few (I confess) are the corruptions you make instead of corrections, by additions, yet one I shall name in your Government of the Tongue, as Sciencies for Sciences, generally received; because surely it was neer enough the Latine Tongue before: and therefore, hereafter by the same reason we must also write Instancies, and experiencies, and ignorancies, for our usual, Instances, experiences, and ignorances: Nay, we must go through the work of reforming, and in the singular number also, write Sciencie for Science, and instancie for instance, and experiencie for experience. For our Language (as I shall shew by and by) requires nothing more, generally to the making a Noun Substantive plural, of a singular, but the addition of a single s. (p. 6)
Alston
III.i.200
Wing
F2215
