The Best & plainest English spelling-book containing all the different words, syllables, & letters in the old English character, of the three first usual school-books, (the Horn-Book, the A B C with the catechism, & the Primer) & more too.

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The Best & plainest English spelling-book containing all the different words, syllables, & letters in the old English character, of the three first usual school-books, (the Horn-Book, the A B C with the catechism, & the Primer) & more too.
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[London :: s.n.,
1700]
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"The Best & plainest English spelling-book containing all the different words, syllables, & letters in the old English character, of the three first usual school-books, (the Horn-Book, the A B C with the catechism, & the Primer) & more too." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27529.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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Rule 3. Some Letters not heard in Words to the 1st. Rule Viz. Vowels short, & Consonants proper.

  • bread dread health wealth learn the a not heard
  • dead death earth sweat the a not heard
  • else pledge selves serve the last e not sounded
  • come give live since love move prove horse purge judgethe e not heard
  • fierce neither of the e's pronounced c before e as s / & g before e soft, by Rule 2.
  • bloud flouds young the o not heard
  • build the u not heard
  • debt lamb. the b not heard.
  • gnash the g not heard
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