The Britan Tongue

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Author

Hume, Alexander, schoolmaster

Title

Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles

Credits

Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17000

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17000

Release Date

November 4, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue; — A Treates, noe shorter then necessarie, for the Schooles,
2. 2.Alexander Hume.
3. 3.PREFACE. — OF THE ORTHOGRAPHIE OF THE BRITAN TONGUE; A TREATES, NOE SHORTER THEN NECESSARIE, FOR THE SCHOOLES. — OF THE GROUNDES OF ORTHOGRAPHIE. Cap. 1. — OF THE LATINE VOUALES. Cap. 2. — OF THE BRITAN VOUALES. Cap. 3. — OF CONSONANTES. Cap. 4. — OF OUR ABUSING SUM CONSONANTES. Cap. 5. — OF THE SYLLAB. Cap. 6. — OF THE RULES TO SYMBOLIZE. Cap. 7. — OF RULES FROM THE LATIN. Cap. 7. ( sic. ) — OF SUM IDIOMES IN OUR ORTHOGRAPHIE. Cap. 8. — OF THE ACCENTES OF OUR TONGUE. Cap. 9. — OF THE APOSTROPHUS AND HYPHEN. Cap. 10. — OF THE CONGRUITIE OF OUR BRITAN TONGUE. — LIB. 2. — OF THE PERSON. Cap. 1. — OF NU M BER. Cap. 2. — OF THE DETERMINATION OF THE PERSON. Cap. 3. — OF THE GENDER OF A NOUN. Cap. 4. — OF THE CASE OF THE NOUN. Cap. 5. — OF THE DEGREES OF COMPARISON. Cap. 6. — OF THE VERB’S PERSON AND NUMBER. Cap. 7. — OF THE MOOD OF THE VERB. Cap. 8. — OF THE TYME OF THE VERB. Cap. 9. — OF THE POWER OF THE VERB. Cap. 10. — OF THE ADVERB. Cap. 11. — OF THE CONJUNCTION. Cap. 12. — OF DISTINCTIONES. Cap. 13.
4. 4.NOTES.
5. 5.GLOSSARIAL INDEX. — Early English Text Society. — LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. — FOOTNOTES

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