On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types. Including a Re-arrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521. By Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S., Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Member of the London Mathematical Society, Member of the Council of the Philological Society, Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1837. Part I. On the Pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries


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On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types. Including a Re-arrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521. By Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S., Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Member of the London Mathematical Society, Member of the Council of the Philological Society, Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1837. Part II. On the Pronunciation of the XIII Th and Previous Centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, with Chronological Tables of the Value of Letters and Expressions of Sound in English Writing


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