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 56Philological Society, 1889 - English language |
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Aylburton Bell's Chapel-en-le-Frith Christian Malford common consonants Cowarne da'i dái dha't dhæt dhat dhat)s dhee dher dhet dhii dhis dialect dict diphthong district English Glossary glossic heard hence kaal King's Lynn labialised lit'l mái MDWS Miss múer na'u náin native neem niit NORSE omitted phonetic pron pronunciation rect says shew shii sound speech stre'it syllable teld thiq thiqk thou thruu Tilshead tongue trilled vowel weev WEsh WESSEX WESSEX AND NORSE Whitelands words written wumen