Richard Brooksbank, Plain, Brief, and Pertinent Rules for the Judicious and Artificial Syllabication of all English Words (1654)
Date
1654
Author
Richard
Brooksbank
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Plain, brief, and pertinent Rvles, For the Judicious and Artificial Syllabication of all English Words, According to Art, and the Institution of the same Tongue. With Directions for the use of the English Syllabary, and the English Monosyllabary, and the said Rules of Syllabication
Publication place
London
Publisher
the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Summary
Terms of art (pp. 7-8), and explanation of a syllable (p. 22). Ian Michael (1987: 408) attributes this book to John Brooksbank
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A word of one letter, is a Monogram
sample: A word of one letter, is a Monogram
Alston
IV.57
Wing
B 4976
