The Writing Scholar's Companion (1695) (Classic Reprint)

The old spelling-book reprinted in this volume was discovered a few years ago in the British Museum catalogue by the present writer. Till then it appears to have escaped the notice of philologists. There is also a copy in the Bodleian Library, but like most old schoolbooks it seems to be rare, and as every work which throws light on English pronunciation about 1700 a period when important sound-changes were carried out should be welcome, I have decided to publish a reprint of it.

The present edition differs in two respects from those previously published in this series. The pagination of the original has not been followed. The misprints are corrected in the text, a list of them being found at p. 123. It should be added that the original is badly printed, and that the type used was evidently old and worn, the result being that sometimes letters are illegible. In no case can there be any doubt what the intended reading is, and I have given the correct form without any remark.

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