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Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue

Alexander Hume.

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EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, BY

HENRY B. WHEATLEY.

LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, BY TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXV.

HERTFORD: Printed by Stephen Austin.

Preface

Of the Orthographie of the Britan Tongue 1. Of the Groundes of Orthographie. 2. Of the Latine Vouales. 3. Of the Britan Vouales. 4. Of Consonantes. 5. Of Our Abusing Sum Consonantes. 6. Of the Syllab. 7. Of the Rules to Symbolize. 7. Of Rules from the Latin. 8. Of Sum Idiomes in our Orthographie. 9. Of the Accentes of our Tongue. 10. Of the Apostrophus and Hyphen.

Of the Congruitie of Our Britan Tongue 1. Of the Person. 2. Of Number. 3. Of the Determination of the Person. 4. Of the Gender of a Noun. 5. Of the Case of the Noun. 6. Of the Degrees of Comparison. 7. Of the Verb’s Person and Number. 8. Of the Mood of the Verb. 9. Of the Tyme of the Verb. 10. Of the Power of the Verb. 11. Of the Adverb. 12. Of the Conjunction. 13. Of Distinctiones.

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