A special help to orthographie: or, The true-vvriting of English.: Consisting of such words as are alike in sound, and unlike both in their signification and writing: As also, of such words vvhich are so neer alike in sound, that they are sometimes taken one for another. Whereunto are added diverse orthographical observations, very needfull to be known. / Publisht by Richard Hodges, a school-master, dwelling in Southwark, at the Midle-gate within Mountague-close, for the benefit of all such as do affect true-writing.
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- A special help to orthographie: or, The true-vvriting of English.: Consisting of such words as are alike in sound, and unlike both in their signification and writing: As also, of such words vvhich are so neer alike in sound, that they are sometimes taken one for another. Whereunto are added diverse orthographical observations, very needfull to be known. / Publisht by Richard Hodges, a school-master, dwelling in Southwark, at the Midle-gate within Mountague-close, for the benefit of all such as do affect true-writing.
- Author
- Hodges, Richard, School-Master.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Richard Cotes,
- 1643 [i.e. 1644]
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- English language -- Orthography and spelling
- English language -- Pronunciation
- English language -- Homonyms
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"A special help to orthographie: or, The true-vvriting of English.: Consisting of such words as are alike in sound, and unlike both in their signification and writing: As also, of such words vvhich are so neer alike in sound, that they are sometimes taken one for another. Whereunto are added diverse orthographical observations, very needfull to be known. / Publisht by Richard Hodges, a school-master, dwelling in Southwark, at the Midle-gate within Mountague-close, for the benefit of all such as do affect true-writing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the Reader.
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A SPECIAL HELP TO ORTHOGRAPHIE.
- Such words as are alike in sound, and unlike both in their signification and writing, are exprest by different Letters, in these examples following.
- Such words which are so neer alike in sound, as that they are sometimes taken one for another; are also exprest by different Letters, in these examples following.
- Examples of some words, wherein one sound is exprest diverse ways in writing.
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Some special observations, very needful to bee known, for the help of
True-writing.
- Errata.