Thomas Lye, Reading and Spelling English Made Easy (1673)

Date

1673

Author

Thomas Lye Note: 11/10/2005

Book title

Reading and Spelling English Made Easie. Wherein All the Words of our English Bible are set down in an Alphabetical order and divided into their distinct Syllabls. Together with The Grounds of the English Tongue laid in Verse, wherein are couch't many Moral Precepts. By the Help whereof, with Gods blessing, Little Children, and others of ordinary Capacities, may in few Months be enabled exactly to Read and Spell the whole Bible

Publication place

London

Printer

A. Maxwell

Publisher

Thomas Parkhurst

Text type

printed book

Genre

Spelling

Subject area

spelling

Summary

A large alphabetical word-list without explanation but with syllabification

Language

headwords: English

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: other
sample: AA-ron
AA-ron-ites (b1r)

Alston

IV.90-93

Wing

L3542

Other editions

1677: Wing L3539;
1698 (TC III.86)

Facsimiles

Scolar (1969) [1677 edition]

Criticisms