Simon Daines, Orthoepia Anglicana: or, the First Principal Part of the English Grammar (1640)
Date
1640
Author
Book title
Orthoepia Anglicana: Or, The First Principall Part Of The English Grammar: Teaching The Art of right speaking and pronouncing English, With certaine exact rules of Orthography, and rules of spelling or combining of Syllables, and directions for keeping of stops or points between sentence and sentence
Publication place
London
Printer
Robert Young and Richard Badger
Publisher
the Company of Stationers
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Summary
Names of letters of the English alphabet (b4r); definitions of grammatical terms (passim); headword-syllables and explanations (pages 21-57)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: abt, ebt. B before t is seldome sounded, as debt, doubt, quasi det dout. (p. 22)
sample: abt, ebt. B before t is seldome sounded, as debt, doubt, quasi det dout. (p. 22)
Alston
VI.464
STC
6190
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927.
7329, 7806.
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Facsimiles
Daines, Simon. Orthoepia Anglicana, 1640. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 31. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967.
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Modern editions
Rösler, Margarete and Rudolf Brotanek, eds. Simon Daines' Orthoepia anglicana (1640). Neudrucke frühneuenglischer grammatiken, bd. 3. Halle: S. M. Niemeyer, 1908.
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