English pronunciation in the eighteenth century : Thomas Spence's Grand repository of the English language

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Beal, Joan C., author

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Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in 18th-century...

Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in 18th-century Britain.

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