Richard Hodges, Most Plain Directions for True-writing (1653)
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Date
1653
Author
Book title
Most Plain Directions For True-writing: In particular for such English words as are Alike in sound, and Unlike both in their signification and in writing: and of such words whose sounds are so neer alike, that they are oftentimes take one for another. With many other Most Plain Directions for True Writing in general. And such Choice Tables for the same purpose, now lately added thereunto, as the like in this kinde were never yet publisht by any to this day. With divers other Tables also of no small concernment
Publication place
London
Printer
W. D.
Publisher
Author and Nicholas Bourn
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Summary
Unlike words spelled alike (pp. 1-39), punctuation (pp. 40-42), roman numbers (pp. 84-86), and tables of syllables
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ASent not thereunto, at the ascent of the hill; for there is a sent or savor very unsavorie. (p. 1)
At the Admiration point, [!] there is to bee a full stop; and it is figur'd as in these Examples. (p. 41)
sample: ASent not thereunto, at the ascent of the hill; for there is a sent or savor very unsavorie. (p. 1)
At the Admiration point, [!] there is to bee a full stop; and it is figur'd as in these Examples. (p. 41)
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H2311A
Facsimiles
Hodges , Richard. Most Plain Directions for True-writing, 1653. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 118. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
