Richard Flecknoe, A Discourse of Languages and Particularly of the English Tongue (1653)
Date
1653
Author
Richard
Fleckno(alternate name for
Richard
Flecknoe
)
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A Discourse of Languages. And particularly of the English Tongue
Book title
Miscellania. Or Poems of all sorts, with divers other Pieces
Publication place
London
Printer
T. R.
Publisher
the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
grammar
Summary
Treatise on English and its copious lexicon
Extent
75-107
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: And here we must note, that 'tis not the many vowells in a Language that renders it gratefull to the Eare, but the well mixing of them with Consonants; the Savages in America (as I have observ'd) having more vowells in their Language then we in ours, and more of the A and E, the Language of Children, & of the Tongue-tyed, for lazinesse perhaps, and want of taking payns in pronouncing of their words, whilst the Northern people (more laborious and industrious) spare no payns to cultivate their speech and break their mouths to hard pronunciations, it being proper in all those who are robustious and strong like them, to affect a certaine rudinesse in their language and behaviour. (pp. 106-07)
sample: And here we must note, that 'tis not the many vowells in a Language that renders it gratefull to the Eare, but the well mixing of them with Consonants; the Savages in America (as I have observ'd) having more vowells in their Language then we in ours, and more of the A and E, the Language of Children, & of the Tongue-tyed, for lazinesse perhaps, and want of taking payns in pronouncing of their words, whilst the Northern people (more laborious and industrious) spare no payns to cultivate their speech and break their mouths to hard pronunciations, it being proper in all those who are robustious and strong like them, to affect a certaine rudinesse in their language and behaviour. (pp. 106-07)
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