Guy Miège, The English Grammar or the Grounds and Genius of the English Tongue (1688)

Date

1688

Author

Guy Miège Note: 12/10/2005 nationality: Swiss

Book title

The English Grammar; Or, The Grounds and Genius Of The English Tongue. With A Prefatory Discourse, Concerning Its Original, and Excellancy; And, at the End, a Collection of The English Monosyllables; Being the Radical Part of the Language. Wherein True Spelling and Pointing, the usual Abbreviations, the several Hands used in Writing, and Characters in Printing, the Variety of Styles, and the Method of Books, &c. are Explained

Publication place

London

Publisher

R. Wild

Text type

printed book

Genre

Grammars

Subject area

• grammar
• spelling

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: oll.
to coll
droll
to droll
knoll
loll
to loll
poll
to poll
roll
to roll
toll
to toll
to troll (p. 160)

Alston

I.31

Wing

M2010

Catalog

Kennedy 5734, 5737 (1691)

Other editions

1689?: Wing K5736 (Alston I.32);
1691: Wing M2011 (Alston I.33; XII.32-33)

Facsimiles

Miège, Guy. The English Grammar, 1688. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 152. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record

Criticisms

Bately, Janet. "Miège and the Development of the English Dictionary." Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds: A Festschrift for Eric Dobson. Eds. E. G. Stanley and Douglas Gray. Cambridge: Brewer, 1983. 1-10. view record
Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 17. view record
Cormier, M, and H Fernandez. "From the Great French Dictionary (1688) of Guy Miège to the Royal Dictionary (1699) of Abel Boyer: Tracing Inspiration." International Journal of Lexicography 18.4 (2005): 479-507. view record