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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〈◊〉〈◊〉 Words written with Letters not heard, to Rule 2.

a not sounded in

  • sea
  • teach
  • preach
  • lead
  • beasts
  • least
  • feast
  • eat
  • heat
  • deaf
  • leaf
  • speak
  • break
  • heal
  • steal
  • deal
  • dealt
  • clean
  • mean
  • means
  • meat
  • beat
  • great
  • seat
  • coach
  • cloak
  • oath.

e not sounded in

  • yea
  • bear
  • face
  • grace
  • place
  • age
  • scarce
  • made
  • rage
  • make
  • makes
  • whales
  • sake
  • take
  • came
  • lame
  • blame
  • name
  • names
  • same
  • spare
  • snares
  • haste
  • taste
  • waste
  • gates
  • hate
  • state
  • late
  • gave
  • save
  • have
  • ice
  • side
  • pride
  • hide
  • life
  • wife
  • like
  • while
  • time
  • times
  • mine
  • nine
  • pine
  • wine
  • wipe
  • fire
  • five
  • lives
  • wives
  • bone
  • foe
  • force
  • throne
  • none
  • whole
  • smoke
  • sore
  • store
  • more
  • use
  • due
  • true
  • mule
  • rule
  • pure
  • sure.

  • i not pronounced in air fruit fruits.
  • o not heard in you. The last o in door poor.
  • u not sounded in your mourn courts.
  • ue not sounded in guide guile plague.
  • a & the last e not sounded in cleave peace.
  • b not heard in womb.
  • g not heard in sign.
  • h not heard in Ghost.
  • gh not pronounced in high nigh night nights light might right sight.

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