An attempt to render the pronunciation of the English language more easy, 1795.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, William, Rev. of Camberwell.

Series:

English linguistics, 1500-1800--a collection of facsimile reprints ; no. 182.

English linguistics, 1500-1800; a collection of facsimile reprints ; no. 182.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Pronunciation.

English language.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xvi, 391 pages, plate, portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Menston, (Yorks.) : Scolar P., 1969.

Notes:

"A Scolar Press facsimile.".

Pref., introd., and introductory material for each section of word-lists are in French and English. French translations are given for English words which are listed.

Includes facsims. of added t.p. in French and of additional English t.p., reading: Scheme of a French and English dictionary. Entered at Stationers' Hall.

"Reproduced (original size) by permission of the Cuurators of the Bodleian Library ... The original copy is wrongly bound, some of the preliminary matter appearing twice."--"Note".

English and French.

Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London, Printed for the author by T. Gillet, 1795.

"A forerunner of ... [Smith's] French Dictionary, published in 1814."--"Note".

Original t.p. reads: An attempt to render the pronunciation of the English language more easy to foreigners, being the abridgment of a larger work, to be complete in three volumes, and entitled A dictionary of the English and French languages, upon a plan entirely new, wherein every useful word of the former is introduced, arranged and divided in such a manner as to subject its articulation and pronunciation to a few general rules. To which is added an alphabetical index, pointing out the place of each word. By William Smith, A. M. London, Printed for the author by T. Gillet, and sold by C. Dilly ... [etc.] MDCCXCV.

ISBN:

0854171150

OCLC:

97083