Richard Hodges, A Special Help to Orthography or the True-writing of English (1643)

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Date

1643

Author

Richard Hodges Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

A Special Help to Orthographie; Or, The True-writing of English. Consisting of such Words as are alike in sound, and unlike both in their significance and Writing: As also, Of such Words which are so neer alike in sound, that they are sometimes taken one for another. Whereunto are added diverse Orthographical observations, very needfull to be known

Publication place

London

Publisher

Richard Cotes

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

spelling

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: TO assent or agree. An ascent or going up. A sent or savour. (a3r)

Alston

VI.575-77

Wing

H2313

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. 7330, 7332 (1649); 9882, 9883. view record

Other editions

London: Wm. Du-gard, 1649. Also 1853.

Facsimiles

Hodges, Richard. A Special Help to Orthographie: a facsimile reproduction of the original book printed for Richard Cotes, in London, in the year 1643 by Richard Hodges. Michigan facsimile series, no. 2. Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, 1932. view record

Criticisms

Alsop, J. D. "Richard Hodges and Stowe Manuscript 15." The British Library Journal 5.2 (1979): 200-01. view record