Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the SchoolesHume, Alexander, schoolmaster
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Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles
Hume, Alexander, schoolmaster
English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Early works to 1800
Nae = no, pp. 1, 8.
Nane = none, p. 13.
Noat, _v._ = note, pp. 19, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33.
Noat = note, pp. 7, 13, 28, 29;
noate, p. 28;
noates = notes, p. 29.
Nor = than, p. 3.
Nor, God nor, p. 31.
This most probably means God comfort or nourish us, connected with
_norice_, a nurse, and _norie_, a foster-child. There is also a
substantive _nore_ in Chaucer, meaning comfort. _Norne_ is to
entreat, ask (see _Alliterative Poems_ Glossary), and may have
something to do with this expression, but it is hardly so probable
as the above.
Noute = black cattle, p. 27;
connected with _neat_, as in neat-cattle, neat-herd.
Nulleth = negatives, p. 33.
Nurice = nurse, p. 19.
Of = off, p. 23.
Ones, at ones = at once, p. 18.
Paen = trouble, p. 2.
Paert = part, p. 10.
Peple = people, pp. 20, 29.
Phason = pheasant (?), p. 13.
Pover = poor, p. 3.
Punct = stop, p. 34.
Qu.
At p. 18 the author gives his reasons for making use of the guttural
_qu_ in the place of the labial _w_. The following are the words in
which it is thus used:--
Quha = who, pp. 2, 3, 34.
Quhae = who, pp. 1, 10;
quhae’s = whose, p. 2.
Quhaer = where, p. 2.
Quhar = where, p. 29.
Quharein = wherein, p. 14.
Quharof = whereof, p. 16.
Quhat = what, pp. 2, 8, 15, 17, 18, 28.
Quhatever = whatever, p. 19.
Quhen = when, pp. 2, 9, 11, 23, 31.
Quhence = whence, pp. 29, 32.
Quher = where, pp. 2, 14, 20, 32.
Quheras = whereas, p. 14.
Quherat = whereat, p. 18.
Quherbe = whereby, pp. 11, 34.
Quherfoer, quherforr = wherefore, pp. 7, 8, 10, 15.
Quherin = wherein, pp. 20, 22.
Quherof = whereof, pp. 29, 34.
Quheron = whereon, p. 22.
Quherupon = whereupon, pp. 8, 27.
Quherwith = wherewith, p. 2.
Quhil, quhiles = while, p. 2.
Quhilk = which.
Quhither = whether, pp. 11, 17, 18, 20, 32.
Quho = who, pp. 12, 14, 15, 18, 22.
Quhom = whom.
Quhy = why, pp. 20, 21, 29.
Quhyte = white, p. 30;
quhiter, p. 30;
quhytest, p. 30.
Quod = quoth, p. 18.
Rease = rose, p. 18.
Red = read, p. 34.
Regne = reign, p. 20.
Retine = retain, p. 20.
Ryseth = ariseth, p. 9.
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