John Hart, The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of our English Tongue (1551)
Date
1551
Author
John
Hart
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The opening of the unreasonable writing of our inglish toung: wherin is shewid what necessarili is to be left, and what folowed for the perfect writing thereof
Transcription source
British Library MS Royal 17.C.VII
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Summary
Treatise proposing a new system of spelling for English that is faithful to its pronunciation
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Then it is plain that he letter is the figure of the lest part of the voice, which we mai also call a maner of Image of the voice made that by the quantite, and qualite therof we mought know for what voice it serveth. (31; Danielsson [1955]: 118)
sample: Then it is plain that he letter is the figure of the lest part of the voice, which we mai also call a maner of Image of the voice made that by the quantite, and qualite therof we mought know for what voice it serveth. (31; Danielsson [1955]: 118)
Alston
VI.520
Other editions
1569: STC 12890; a different preface but otherwise the works are the same)
Modern editions
Hart, John. John Hart's Works on English Orthography and Pronunciation, 1551, 1569, 1580. Ed. Bror A. Danielsson. Stockholm Studies in English, 5 and 11. Stockholm: n.p., 1955-63.
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Criticisms
Kökeritz, Helge. "John Hart and Early Standard English." Philologica: The Malone Anniversary Studies. Eds. Thomas A. Kirby and Henry Bosley Woolf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949. 239-48.
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Lucas, Peter J. "Sixteenth-century English Spelling Reform and the Printers in Continental Perspective: Sir Thomas Smith and John Hart." 7th series. The Library 1.1 (2000 March): 3-21. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "John Hart and the Beginnings of Phonetics in Sixteenth-century England." Perspectives on English: Studies in Honour of Professor Emma Vorlat. Eds. Keith Carlon, Kristin Davidse, and Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. Orbis Supplementa Tome 2. Leuven and Paris: Peeters, 1994. 1-20. view record
Lucas, Peter J. "Sixteenth-century English Spelling Reform and the Printers in Continental Perspective: Sir Thomas Smith and John Hart." 7th series. The Library 1.1 (2000 March): 3-21. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "John Hart and the Beginnings of Phonetics in Sixteenth-century England." Perspectives on English: Studies in Honour of Professor Emma Vorlat. Eds. Keith Carlon, Kristin Davidse, and Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. Orbis Supplementa Tome 2. Leuven and Paris: Peeters, 1994. 1-20. view record
