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English pronunciation in the eighteenth century : Thomas Spence's Grand repository of the English language / Joan C. Beal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beal, Joan C., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spence, Thomas, 1750-1814. Grand repository of the English language.
- English language--18th century--Pronunciation.
- English language.
- English language--18th century--Lexicography.
- Local Subjects:
- Spence, Thomas, 1750-1814. Grand repository of the English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 239 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in 18th-century Britain.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-01257-1
- 1-280-44600-5
- 0-19-154394-2
- OCLC:
- 1027166806
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