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| Year: | 1695 | ||||||||||||
| Short description: | 'The Writing Scholar's Companion: or, Infallible Rules for Writing True English' published | ||||||||||||
| Medium description: | 'The Writing Scholar's Companion: or, Infallible Rules for Writing True English' published. The author is unknown. Includes rule that the silent consonants must be written so as to show the origin of the word. [Brengelman (1980) states 1655 even though he states that it was plaigarised from Cooper's "English Grammar" which he states as being of 1685 (and as "Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae")] | ||||||||||||
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- Blake, N. F. (1996). A History of the English Language. Hong Kong: McMillan Publishers Ltd [p.240]
- Crystal, David (2012). Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. London: Profile Books Ltd [p.154]
- Brengelman, F. H. (1980) Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79/3 pp.332-354 [p.344]