Henry Sweet
Published: 2017-07-23
Total Pages: 440
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Excerpt from A History of English Sounds From the Earliest Period: Including an Investigation of the General Laws of Sound Change, and Full Word Lists Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, f.r.s. The first two parts were published in 1869 by three societies in combination, viz. The Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; and the third part, by the same societies, in 1870. The work is not yet completed, and the fourth part, not yet published, will contain a full account of our modern English provincial dialects, shewing their distri bution and connections. Mr. Ellis employs a system of symbols called palwotype, but, as every one of these has its exact equivalent in Mr. Bell's system, it admits of the same degree of accuracy, and has the advantage of being wholly represented by ordinary printing-types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.