Thomas Lye, The Child's Delight (1671)
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Date
1671
Author
Thomas Lye Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
The Childs Delight. Together with an English Grammar
Publication place
London
Printer
S. Simmons
Publisher
Thomas Parkhurst
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- spelling
Extent
69-162 (grammar)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: etch etcht fetch retch vetch wretch -- stretcht. (p. 37)
A Letter is the lest part of a word, and the character, or mark of a singl sound. There are in the English Tongue or Language twenty-six Letters, j and v consonants, being as far different from i and u vowels, both as to shape, and sound, as any other of the twenty-four Letters are. (p. 70)
sample: etch etcht fetch retch vetch wretch -- stretcht. (p. 37)
A Letter is the lest part of a word, and the character, or mark of a singl sound. There are in the English Tongue or Language twenty-six Letters, j and v consonants, being as far different from i and u vowels, both as to shape, and sound, as any other of the twenty-four Letters are. (p. 70)
Alston
I.28
Wing
L3530
Catalog
Kennedy 5727
Facsimiles
Lye, Thomas. The Child's Delight, 1671. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 91. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. 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. 16. view record
