Name: English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language
Author: Beal, Joan C.
ISBN: 9780199256679

by Beal, Joan C.

English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language

by Beal, Joan C.

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ISBN-13: 9780199256679
ISBN: 0199256675
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

AUTHOR

Beal, Joan C.

SUMMARY

The phonetic 'Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language' (1775) was part of a plan for radical reform by political writer Thomas Spence. Aimed at the lower classes, it was an attempt to provide access to 'correct' grammar for all, an adjunct to the common ownership of the land.Beal, Joan C. is the author of 'English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language' with ISBN 9780199256679 and ISBN 0199256675.

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