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 the speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, a grammatical introduction to the English tongue. A new edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged; to which is now added, Besides several words, a chronological table from the creation of the world to 1794, Never in any former one.

  • Entick, John, 1703?-1773.
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1795
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New spelling dictionary

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London : printed for the booksellers, 1795.

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xxviii,512p. ; obl.120.

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ESTC T210972
Alston, V.270

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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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