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    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)
    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)
    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)
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    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)

    By G. W., David Abercrombie, John White and John Wild

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) - G. W.

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      Title: Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)

      Author: G. W.

      Commentator: David Abercrombie

      Release Date: December 18, 2006 [EBook #20130]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAGAZINE, OR ANIMADVERSIONS ***

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      This e-text includes a few Greek and Hebrew letters:

      ayin ע, dalet ד, he ה, shin ש;

      gamma Γ γ, theta Θ θ

      If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browser’s character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser’s default font.

      In the printed text, the author’s special letters were represented by ordinary roman letters turned upside-down. They are shown in this e-text by single letters in [brackets]. Alternative readings of selected passages are given at the end of the text.

      A few clear typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups

      . Uncertain readings have been similarly marked, but left unchanged.

      In addition to the ordinary page numbers, the printed text labeled the recto (odd) pages of the first four leaves of each 16-page signature. These will appear in the right margin as A, A2, A3...

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      G. W.

      MAGAZINE, OR

      ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE

      ENGLISH SPELLING

      (1703)

      Introduction by

      David Abercrombie

      Publication Number 70

      Los Angeles

      William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      1958

      Editor’s Introduction

      Magazine

      Augustan Reprint Society publications

      Material added by transcriber:

      Transcriber’s Footnotes and Alternative Readings

      Nottingham Printing Perfected broadsheet

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, Clark Memorial Library

      ASSISTANT EDITOR

      W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington

      Benjamin Boyce, Duke University

      Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan

      John Butt, King’s College, University of Durham

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Ernest C. Mossner, University of Texas

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      I first came across what is, as far as I know, the unique copy of Magazine, by G. W., when working in the library formed by the late Sir Isaac Pitman.¹ It is bound up as the last item in a volume which contains several nineteenth-century pamphlets on language and spelling, and also the first numbers of the periodical The Phonetic Friend. (The volume was for a time in the possession of the Bath City Free Library, to which it was presented by Isaac Pitman; it must subsequently have been returned to him.) I drew attention to the existence of Magazine in an article published in 1937;² to the best of my knowledge it had not been noticed in print before that, though it is of considerable interest in a number of respects. I am indebted to Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., London, for permission to reproduce the pamphlet herewith in the Augustan Reprints.

      G. W. was a spelling reformer, one of the many writers who, from early Elizabethan times onwards, have been critical of traditional English orthography and have made proposals for improving it. Although nothing that could be called a spelling-reform movement existed until the nineteenth century, there were earlier periods when the subject was much in the air, when a number of people were writing about it and reading and discussing each other’s ideas. The publication of Magazine does not fall at one of these times; it comes, in

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