Owen Price, The Vocal Organ (1665)
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Date
1665
Editor
Owen Price Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
The Vocal Organ, Or A new Art of teaching the English Orthographie, By observing the instruments of Pronunciation, and the difference between words of like sound, whereby any Outlandish, or meer English Man, Woman, or Child, may speedily attain to the exact spelling, reading, writing, or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue, without the advantage of its Fountains, the Greek, and Latine
Publication place
Oxford
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
spelling
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: R. 14. *Ch sounds k, so h silent letter, In words from Hebrew, and Greek, as chóler. Chémosh, Christ, Stómach, Málachi. School, schólar.
To Ache, ánarchie, árchangel, ánchor, ántichrist, Antoich, Chasm, cháracter, chólick, chíromancie, chirúrgion, chrónicle, chronólogie, chymistrie, chymical, éccho, éunuch. Híerarchie. Mechánick, mélancholie, Mónarchie. Pátriarch. Schédule, scheme: But custom excepts Chérubim. Ráchel. Tychius. Arch. Archbíshop, an ach.
* For this is derived from those letters which we sound like k in Hebrew and Greek: And that Ignoramus, that would sound them as Teeth letters, may correct himself in these words which he cannot pronounce with the Teeth; as Christ, school, éccho, &c. (p. 18)
sample: R. 14. *Ch sounds k, so h silent letter, In words from Hebrew, and Greek, as chóler. Chémosh, Christ, Stómach, Málachi. School, schólar.
To Ache, ánarchie, árchangel, ánchor, ántichrist, Antoich, Chasm, cháracter, chólick, chíromancie, chirúrgion, chrónicle, chronólogie, chymistrie, chymical, éccho, éunuch. Híerarchie. Mechánick, mélancholie, Mónarchie. Pátriarch. Schédule, scheme: But custom excepts Chérubim. Ráchel. Tychius. Arch. Archbíshop, an ach.
* For this is derived from those letters which we sound like k in Hebrew and Greek: And that Ignoramus, that would sound them as Teeth letters, may correct himself in these words which he cannot pronounce with the Teeth; as Christ, school, éccho, &c. (p. 18)
Alston
VI.467
Wing
P3396
Other editions
1670
Facsimiles
Scolar Press (1970) Price, Owen. The Vocal Organ, 1665. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 227. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
Criticisms
- Gabrielson, A., Studia Neophilologica, II: 150-51
