A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language
by John Walker
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About This Item
London: Thomas Richardson, 1854 Together with principles of English pronunciation and a key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names intersperced with observations, etymological, critical and grammatical. New edition in which not only the vocabulary but the meaning and pronunciation have been carefully revised, the terms of science explained in accordance with its present state, the articles on the peculiarities of the pronunciation of the English, Irish and Scotch rewritten. 614pp plus two appendices. Publishers gilt and blind impressed cloth, sometime rebacked, strong but not subtle. Edges rubbed and corners bumped.
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- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
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- Title
- A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language
- Author
- John Walker
- Format/Binding
- Publishers Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Richardson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1854
- Size
- 230x150mm
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The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.
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