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.
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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.
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Kniezsa, Veronika. "Alexander Hume: Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue." Scottish Language 16 (1997): 52-62. view record
Kniezsa, Veronika. "Alexander Hume: Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue." Scottish Language 16 (1997): 52-62. view record