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Year:

1617

Short description:

Hume's "Of the Orthographie of the Britain Tongue"

Medium description:

Alexander Hume's "Of the Orthographie of the Britain Tongue".

Concerned more with the written than printed word.

Not published till 19th Century accotding to Salmon.

Tags:

history of English

orthography

Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.299]
Salmon, Vivian (1999). Orthography and Punctuation. in Lass, Roger. The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume iii 1476-1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.13-55 [p.34]