On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer: Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types, Including a Rearrangement of F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521, Issue 2; Issue 7Philological Society, 1869 - English language |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent ææ Anglosaxon assonances Bullokar cæsura Canterbury Tales Chaucer Chaucer and Gower considered consonant dhat dhee dhis dialects diph diphthong distinct distinguish doubt edition English examples final French words frequently German Gill gives glide Greek guttural Harl Hart hath heard Hence Icelandic Italian labial labialisation language Latin letter lines lips long vowels means Meigret modern nounced nunciation occasionally occur old high German omitted Orrmin orthoepists orthography palaeotype palate Palsgrave passage phonetic preceding present probably pronounced pronunciation Rapp rhyme Salesbury Saxon says Scotch scribe seems Shakspere shew short vowels sonum sound speech spelling suprà syllable termination tion tongue verse Visible Speech Wallis Welsh writes written XIV th XVI th century XVII th καὶ