Elisha Coles, The Complete English Schoolmaster (1674)
Date
1674
Lexicographer
Elisha
Coles
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Compleat English Schoolmaster. Or The Most Natural and Easie Method Of Spelling English. According To the present proper pronuntiation of the Language in Oxford and London. Wherein Children and Foreigners shall have the whole Body of English words in the plainest order digested and divided to their hands. To which is added An Appendix of useful Observations on Orthography
Publication place
London
Publisher
Peter Parker
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (1969)
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
- pronunciation
- proper name
- rhymes
- spelling
Summary
Single-syllable word-list (pp. 3-21), four spelling lists with accent guide (pp. 22-97), observations of spelling, lists of abbreviations (pp. 109-11), and a list of nicknames (pp. 111-12). Total English lexemes in word-entry entries: 9,604.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 122
number: 122
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 9862
sample: Aw
claw
daw (p. 3) Ha-bér-gi-on
hack-ney
Hag-gai (p. 42)
number: 9862
sample: Aw
claw
daw (p. 3) Ha-bér-gi-on
hack-ney
Hag-gai (p. 42)
Anne --- Nan Nancy (p. 111)
Alston
IV.99
Wing
C5067A
Other editions
1692 (Yale)
Facsimiles
Scolar (1967)
Coles, Elisha. The Compleat English Schoolmaster. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 26. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967.
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Criticisms
Mander, Gerald. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." 3rd series. The Library 37.10 (1919 January): 34-44.
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Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record
