The 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 to understand what they speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, a grammatical introduction to the English Tongue. By the Rev. Joh Entick, A. M. Editor of Littleton's Latin and English Dictionary and Schrevenius's Greek Lexicon.

  • Entick, John, 1703?-1773.
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1774
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London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and sold by W. Creech, and C. Elliot, at Edinburgh, 1774.

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444p. ; obl.120.

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A new edition, carefully revised and corrected; ..

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ESTC T225630
Alston, V 248

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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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