Early Modern English
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Jan 12 17:14:48 CET 2012
Doug Ewell scripsit:
> Sort of. There are several online EModE dictionaries, some with
> reasonably authoritative backing, but of course not compiled
> contemporaneously. Robert Cawdrey's "Table Alphabeticall" (1604) is
> useful, but not a complete dictionary in today's sense; it focused on
> "hard vsuall English wordes" rooted in other languages, defined in terms
> of "plaine English words", and is thus more like a technical lexicon or
> glossary. Johnson's 1755 dictionary is in Modern English, and out of
> scope.
E. A. Abbott, the author of _Flatland_, also wrote _A Shakesperian Grammar_,
which I have read. It's a detailed traditional grammar of EModE. The third
edition of 1870 is online at the Internet Archive and Google Books.
> I'd like to get at least temporary hold of a copy of Charles Barber's
> "Early Modern English".
Me too!
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