Elisha Coles, The Complete English Schoolmaster (1674)

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Date

1674

Lexicographer

Elisha Coles Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The Compleat English Schoolmaster. Or The Most Natural and Easie Method Of Spelling English. According To the present proper pronuntiation of the Language in Oxford and London. Wherein Children and Foreigners shall have the whole Body of English words in the plainest order digested and divided to their hands. To which is added An Appendix of useful Observations on Orthography

Publication place

London

Publisher

Peter Parker

Transcription source

Scolar Press facsimile (1969)

Text type

printed book

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

Summary

Single-syllable word-list (pp. 3-21), four spelling lists with accent guide (pp. 22-97), observations of spelling, lists of abbreviations (pp. 109-11), and a list of nicknames (pp. 111-12). Total English lexemes in word-entry entries: 9,604.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 122

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 9862
sample: Aw
claw
daw (p. 3)

Ha-bér-gi-on
hack-ney
Hag-gai (p. 42)

Anne --- Nan Nancy (p. 111)

Alston

IV.99

Wing

C5067A

Other editions

1692 (Yale)

Facsimiles

Scolar (1967) Coles, Elisha. The Compleat English Schoolmaster. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 26. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. view record

Criticisms

Mander, Gerald. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." 3rd series. The Library 37.10 (1919 January): 34-44. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record