EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, Q WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, CONTAINING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF WRITING WITH SPEECH IN ENGLAND, FROM THE ANGLOSA4XON PERIOD TO TEE PRESENT DAY, PRECEDED BY A SYSTEMATIC NOTATION OF ALL SPOKEN SOUNDS BY MEAKS OF THE ORDINARY PRINTING TYPES. INCLUDISG A RE-ARRANGEYENT OF PROF. F. J. CHILDS MEXOIRS ON THE LANGUAGE OF CFL4UCEB AND GOWER, REPRINTS OF THE RARE TRACTS BP SALESBURY ON ENGLISH, 1547, AND WELSH, 1567, AND BY BABCLEY ON FRENCII, 1521, ABSTRACTS OF SCHMELLE S TREATISE ON BAVANAN DIALECTS, AND WINKLERS LOW GERXAN AND FRIESIAN DIALECTICON, AND PRINCE L. L. BONAPARTES TOWEL AND COKSONANT LISTS. ALEXANDER J. ELLIS, F. R. S., F. S. A., F. C. P. S., F. C. P., PAST PRESIDENT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY. YEMBRK OR THE MATEIBAfATIOAL SOCIETY, FOBMBBLY BCHOLAB, OR TBINITY COLLEGE. CAYBBIDGE, B. A. 1837. P A R T IT. pp. 997-1432. IL1, USTRATIONS OF THE PRONUXCIATION OF ENGLISH IN THE XVII TH, XVIII TH, AKD XIX TH CENTURIES. LEDIARD, BONAPARTE, SCHMELLER, WINKLER. RECEIVED AMERICAN AND IRISH PRONUBCIATION OF ENGLISH. PHOKOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO DIALECTS. LONDON PUBLISHED FOR TIIE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY BY ASHER CO., LONDON AND BERLIN, AND FOR THE EARLY ENQLISH TEXT SOCIETY, AND THE CHAUCER SOCIETY. 1. John Wilkinss Phonetic Writing, pp. 997-999. 4 2. Noteworthy Pronunciations of the Seventeenth Century. 1. Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Seventeenth Century, collected from SVallis 1663, Wilkins 1668, Price 1668, Cooper 1685, English Scholar 1687, Miege 1688, Jones 1701, pp. 999-1018. 2. Words Like and Unlike, pp. 1018-1033. I. Richard Hodgess List 1643, pp. 1019-1023 and Cootes English Schoolmaster 1673, p. 1024. , XI. Omen Prices List 1668, pp. 1024-1028. 111. Coopers List 1685, pp. 1028-1033. 4 3. Conjectured Pronunciation of Dryden, with an Examination of his Rhymes, pp. 1033-1039. CHAPTER X. ILLUSTRA O T F I T O H N E S PR ONUSCIATIO O N F ENGLISH D URING THE EIGHTEENTCHE NTURYp, p . 1040-1084. 1. Some English Orthoepists of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 1040-1058. T. Lediards Account of English Pronunciation, 1725, pp. 1040-1049. N. Bailey on EA, 1726, p. 1049. An Irish Gentleman of 1752 on EA, p. 1050. Kenricks Vowel System, 1773, pp. 1050-1053. Buchanan and Kenricks Pronunciation Compared, pp. 1053-1066. Joshua SteelesVowel System, 1775, pp. 1055-1068. Q 2. Two American Orthoepists of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 1068-1070. i. Benjamin Franklins Phonetic Writing, 1768, pp. 1058-1063. ii. Soah Wcbstcrs Remarks on American English, 1789, pp. 1063-1070. p 3. Noteworthy Pronunciations and Rhjrmes of the Eighteenth Century, collected from the Expert Orthographist 1704, Dyche 1710, Buchanan 1760, Franklin 1768, and Sheridan li80, and various poets, pp. 1071-1084. Noteworthy Pronunciations, pp. 1071-1083. Select Rhymes, pp. 1083-1084. iv CONTENTS OF PART IV. CHAPTER XI. ILLUSTRA O T F I T O HE N P S R ONUNCIATIO O N F ENQLIBH D URING THE NINETEENTHC ESTURY commencing on p. 1085, to be finished in Part V.. 1. Educated English Pronunciation, pp. 1085-1243. An Examination of Mr. Meldle Bells Twenty-six Key-words to English Speech-sounds, and of the Relations of those Sounds preceded by Summary of Contents, pp. 1090-1157 including an examination of native Indian pronunciation of Sanscrit, pp. 1136-1140. Unaccented Syllables, pp. 1158-1171. Comparison of Ielville Bells and Alex. J. Elliss Pronunciations of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, pp. 1171-1173...