Richard Brooksbank, Plain, Brief, and Pertinent Rules for the Judicious and Artificial Syllabication of all English Words (1654)

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Date

1654

Author

Richard Brooksbank Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

Plain, brief, and pertinent Rvles, For the Judicious and Artificial Syllabication of all English Words, According to Art, and the Institution of the same Tongue. With Directions for the use of the English Syllabary, and the English Monosyllabary, and the said Rules of Syllabication

Publication place

London

Publisher

the Author

Text type

printed book

Genre

Grammars

Subject area

Summary

Terms of art (pp. 7-8), and explanation of a syllable (p. 22). Ian Michael (1987: 408) attributes this book to John Brooksbank

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: logical
sample: A word of one letter, is a Monogram

Alston

IV.57

Wing

B 4976