Thomas Lye, A New Spelling Book (1677)

Date

1677

Author

Thomas Lye Note: 11/10/2005

Book title

A New Spelling Book: Or, 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'd 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

Edition

second

Publication place

London

Publisher

Thomas Parkhurst

Text type

printed book

Genre

Spelling

Subject area

spelling

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: be-held Be-na-jah Be-rites
Be-he-moth Ben-am-mi Be-rith (b6r)

Wing

L3539

Facsimiles

Lye, Thomas. A New Spelling Book, 1677. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 149. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record