Christopher Cooper, The English Teacher (1687)
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Date
1687
Author
Christopher Cooper Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The English Teacher Or The Discovery of the Art of Teaching and Learning the English Tongue. Fitted for the Use of Schools, and necessary for all those that desire to Read, Write, or Speak our Tongue with Ease and Understanding.
In Two Parts. The first Contains The Principles. The second is for the Practice of Learners
Publication place
London
Printer
John Richardson
Publisher
Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Summary
See especially "Words that have the same pronunciation, but different signification and manner of writing" (pp. 84-92)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: All [general Collective, every particular or the whole considered together;] Awl, [a little boring instrument.] (p. 84)
sample: All [general Collective, every particular or the whole considered together;] Awl, [a little boring instrument.] (p. 84)
Alston
VI.468-69
Wing
C6051
Catalog
Term Catalogues 2:209; Kennedy 5733a, 5742a (1698)
Other editions
1688: Wing C6015A
Facsimiles
Menston: Scolar, 1969 Cooper, Christopher. The English Teacher, 1687. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 175. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Modern editions
- Bertil Sundry, ed., "Christopher Cooper's English teacher (1687)," Lunds Universitets Arsskrift 50.5 (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1954). Lunds Studies in English, 22 (1953)
- Dobson (1968): I, 280-310
Criticisms
- Ekwall, E., "The MS Collections of Prof. Anna Paues," Studia Neophilologica 21: 35.
Sources
a translation of Cooper's Grammatica linguae anglicanae (1685)
