Alexander Hume, Of the Orthography of the Britan Tongue (ca 1617)

Date

1617ca

Author

Alexander Hume Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

Of the orthographie of the Britan tongue a treates noe shorter, then necessarie for the schooles

Dedicated to

James I Note: 30/09/2005

Transcription source

British Library Royal MS 17.A.XI

Text type

manuscript

Genre

Spelling

Subject area

spelling

Summary

A treatise on spelling of English words and on their parts of speech, written in Scottish

Language

headwords: English

Extent

45 fols.

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Modern editions

Hume, Alexander. Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue; a treates noe shorter then necessarie, for the schooles, be Alexander Hume. Ed. Henry B. Wheatley. Early English Text Society Original Series, no. 5. London: Trübner, 1865. view record

Criticisms

Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 8-9. view record
Kniezsa, Veronika. "Alexander Hume: Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue." Scottish Language 16 (1997): 52-62. view record