Entick's new spelling dictionary, teaching to write and pronounce the English tongue with ease and propriety: In which each Word is accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; the Part of Speech is properly distinguished, and The various significations are ranged in one line; with A List of proper names of Men and Women. The whole Compiled and digested in a Manner entirely new, to make it a complete pocket companion for those Who read Milton, Pope, Addison, Shakespeare, Tillotson, and Locke, or other English Authors of Repute in Prose or Verse: And in particular to assist young People, Artificers, Tradesmen and Foreigners, desirous of understanding what they speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, A grammatical introduction to the English Tongue.

  • Entick, John, 1703?-1773.
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1787
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New spelling dictionary

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London : printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787.

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xxxvi,492p. ; 120.

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A new edition. Revised, corrected, and enlarged throughout. To which is now added, a catalogue of words of similar sounds, .. By William Crakelt, ..

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ESTC T147159

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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