Skip to contentEntick's new spelling dictionary : teaching to write and pronounce the English-tongue with ease and propriety. In which each word is accented accordingly 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 they speak, read, and write. To which is prefixed A grammatical introduction to the English-tongue. Also, a catalogue of words of similar sounds, but of different spellings and significations | Collections | The Huntington
Entick's new spelling dictionary : teaching to write and pronounce the English-tongue with ease and propriety. In which each word is accented accordingly 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 they speak, read, and write. To which is prefixed A grammatical introduction to the English-tongue. Also, a catalogue of words of similar sounds, but of different spellings and significations
Gift of Ralph J. and Virginia L. Wedgwood, 2015. Autograph on inside of front cover: Manuel E. Hunt May 3rd 1805[?]. Multiple pen trials and variations of name "Manuel Eyre Hunt" written on inside of front and back covers and free endpapers at beginning and end.