Owen Price, English Orthography (1668)
Date
1668
Author
Owen
Price
Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
English Orthographie, Or The Art of right spelling, reading, pronouncing, and writing all sorts of English Words. Wherein Such, as one can possibly mistake, are digested in an Alphabetical Order, under their several, short, yet plain Rules. Also Some Rules for the points, and pronunciation, and the using of the great letters. Together With the difference between words of like sound. All which are so suited to every Capacitie, that he, who studies this Art, according to the Directions in the Epistle, may be speedily, and exactly grounded in the whole Language
Publication place
Oxford
Printer
Henry Hall
Publisher
Francis Titon
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Q.
Q. What is the sound of qu?
A. Qu doth sound like, k, as líquor, exchèquer.
Attáque, árquebuss. Barque (or little ship) Oblique. Réliques, Tícquets.
But Rhétorick, publick, politick must be written with, ck, not, que: because they are written in Latine with a ,c, as Rhetorica, publica, politicia. (pp. 20-21)
sample: Q.
Q. What is the sound of qu?
A. Qu doth sound like, k, as líquor, exchèquer.
Attáque, árquebuss. Barque (or little ship) Oblique. Réliques, Tícquets.
But Rhétorick, publick, politick must be written with, ck, not, que: because they are written in Latine with a ,c, as Rhetorica, publica, politicia. (pp. 20-21)
Alston
IV.62-63
Wing
P3395
Facsimiles
Scolar Press (1972)
Price, Owen. English Orthography, 1668. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 314
. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.
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