English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Spence's "Grand Repository of the English Language"
Beal, Joan (Lecturer in the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
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Hardback
252 pages
2 Halftones, 3 Tables
Published: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198237812

Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in 18th-century Britain.