Jeremiah Wharton, The English Grammar (1654)
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Date
1654
Author
Jeremiah Wharton Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
The English-Grammar: Or, The Institution of Letters, Syllables, and Words in the English-Tongue. Conteining all Rules and Directions necessary to bee known for the judicious Reading, Right-speaking, and Writing thereof. Very useful for all, that desire to bee expert in the foresaid properties. More especially profitable for Scholars, immediately before their entrance into the rudiments of the Latine-tongue. Likewise to strangers that desite to learn our Language, it will bee the most certain Guide, that ever yet was extant
Publication place
London
Printer
William Du-Gard
Publisher
Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- spelling
Summary
Occasional definitions (e.g., pp. 1-2), a list of derived words (chapter 9, pp. 71-84), and "A Collection of Certain words Like in sound, but Unlike in Signification and manner of writing" (embedded in sentences; pp. 89-109)
Extent
14 (71-84)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Hyphen is a note of joining two syllables in one word, which otherwise might seem to bee parted: namely, when the first is the last of the former line; and the other is the first of the one following; as in example, ------ teach
ing.
Abel was not able to resists the violence of his brother Cain. (pp. 88-89)
sample: Hyphen is a note of joining two syllables in one word, which otherwise might seem to bee parted: namely, when the first is the last of the former line; and the other is the first of the one following; as in example, ------ teach
ing.
Abel was not able to resists the violence of his brother Cain. (pp. 88-89)
Alston
I. 25
Wing
W 1571
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 5720-21. view record
Other editions
1655: Wing W1572 (Alston I.26)
Facsimiles
Wharton, Jeremiah. The English Grammar, 1654 [or, The institution of
letters, syllables and words in the English tongue]
. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 241. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
Criticisms
Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 14. view record
