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 in general ranged in one Line; with A List of Proper Names of Men and Women. The Whole compiled and digested in a Manner entirely new, So as 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 comprehensive grammar of the English tongue; And a Catalogue of Words of similar Sounds, but of different Spellings and Significations. By William Crakelt, M. A. Rector of Nursted and I field in Kent.

  • Entick, John, 1703?-1773.
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1796
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New spelling dictionary

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London : printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry. T. Longman; B. Law; G.G. and J. Robinson; W. Richardson; R. Baldwin; J. Sewell; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge; J. Scatchered; C. D. Pig enit; and Darton and Harvey, 1796.

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xxxvi,492p. ; 120.

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ESTC T77094

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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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