The irish spelling-book; or, instruction for the reading of English, fitted for the youth of Ireland. In which are set forth many useful observations in spelling, alterations, and amendments in the sounds of letters, both single and double; exact formations of both sorts by the several organs of voice; - a discourse on prosody: a large chapter about various quantities of vowels, change, and loss of letters and syllables in pronunciation; - rules for the right reading of prose and verse; - a new method of parsing, according to orthography and prosody; - a method of teaching, useful both to scholars and their teachers; - and many other necessary things, interspersed in each part of the book.
- Date:
- 1740
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Publication/Creation
Dublin : printed by and for James Hoy [sic], printer and bookseller, at the Sign of the Mercury in Skinner-Row, near the Tholsel, 1740.
Physical description
[8], v, 115, 115-346, [2] p. ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T147348
Alston, IV.422
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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.