Thomas Dawks, The Complete Englishman or The New London School (1685)
Date
1685
Author
T.
D.(alternate name for
Thomas
Dawks
)
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The complete English-man. Or, The new London-school,
instructing children & elder persons speedily to spell, read
and write English. By teaching 1. To know vowels, consonants
and diphthongs. 2. To divide words into syllables. 3.
Needful observations on most of the letters of the alphabet;
wherein it appears that syllables, though the same letters,
have not alwaies one found; which is the reason there are so
many bad readers. 4. All English words divided into
syllables, which will prove a perpetual help, both as a
dictionary for bad spellers, & as an expositor for hard
words. 5. Arithmetick, so far as to division, &c. 6. A sure
guid [sic] to teach a near print hand, by writing first upon
red letters, then on white paper, having also the same red
in black for a copy: whereby, with the hundredth part of the
pains formerly taken there shall not be a man woman or
child, but who shall write, read well, and cast account.
For, 'tis verily presumed, none can peruse it, who shall not
be bettered by it: for, hereby aliens may pose English men,
and a child, his senior (otherwise more learned) as to true
spelling and pronouncing English: making all bad and
ignorant readers good and knowing persons. Humbly submitted
to be learned by T.D.
Publication place
London
Printer
T. Dawkes and Thomas Passinger
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Summary
See British Library C.135.c.15
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Alston
IV.146
Wing
D86aA
Catalog
<i>Term Catalogues</i> II.128
Criticisms
Burgess, Edwina. "Thomas Dawks's The Complete English-man (1685) a Newly-Discovered Seventeenth Century Dictionary?." English Studies 69.4 (1988): 331-40.
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