Christopher Cooper, The English Teacher (1687)

Date

1687

Author

Christopher Cooper Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The English Teacher Or The Discovery of the Art of Teaching and Learning the English Tongue. Fitted for the Use of Schools, and necessary for all those that desire to Read, Write, or Speak our Tongue with Ease and Understanding. In Two Parts. The first Contains The Principles. The second is for the Practice of Learners

Publication place

London

Printer

John Richardson

Publisher

Author

Text type

printed book

Genre

Spelling

Subject area

spelling

Summary

See especially "Words that have the same pronunciation, but different signification and manner of writing" (pp. 84-92)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: All [general Collective, every particular or the whole considered together;] Awl, [a little boring instrument.] (p. 84)

Alston

VI.468-69

Wing

C6051

Catalog

Term Catalogues 2:209; Kennedy 5733a, 5742a (1698)

Other editions

1688: Wing C6015A

Facsimiles

Menston: Scolar, 1969 Cooper, Christopher. The English Teacher, 1687. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 175. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record

Modern editions

<ul> <li> Bertil Sundry, ed., "Christopher Cooper's <i>English teacher</i> (1687)," <i>Lunds Universitets Arsskrift</i> 50.5 (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1954). Lunds Studies in English, 22 (1953) <li> Dobson (1968): I, 280-310 </ul> Sundby, Bertil, ed. Christopher Cooper's English Teacher (1687). Lunds Universitets Arsskrift 50.5; Lunds Studies in English, 22. Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1954 (1953). view record

Criticisms

Sources

a translation of Cooper's Grammatica linguae anglicanae (1685)