An english alphabet, for the use of foreigners : wherein the pronunciation of the vowels, or voice-letters, is explained in twelve short general rules, with their several exceptions, as abridged (for the instruction of Omai) from a larger work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.

Standardized Title:

Short treatise on the English tongue. Abridgments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Omai--Books and reading.

Omai.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76p. )

Other Title:

English alphabet, for the use of foreigners

An english alphabet, for the use of foreigners wherein the pronunciation of the vowels, or voice-letters, is explained in twelve short general rules, with their several exceptions, as abridged

Place of Publication:

London : printed by J.W. Galabin, Ingram-Court, for B. White, Fleet-Street, and C. Dilly, Poultry, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Granville Sharp.

Omai = the Tahitian native brought to England by Captain Furneaux in 1774.

An abridgment of 'A short treatise on the English tongue'.

With 'An appendix, containing a brief account of the chief peculiarities of the English consonants, by the late Rev. Mr. T. S', beginning on page 45.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, vi, 502

English Short Title Catalog, T113850.

OCLC:

642287997