Professor Duncan [Charles Platt]

How to Talk Correctly; a Pocket Manual to Promote Polite and Accurate Conversation, Writing and Reading;- Correct Spelling and Pronunciation: With More Than 500 Errors in Speaking and Writing Corrected: Directions How to Read: A Guide to the Art of Composition and Punctuation.

London, W. Nicholson & Sons, 1877. Cloth. A smart copy of this comprehensive Victorian guide to polite conversation, correct pronunciation, correct spelling, and more. Pocket manual. An interesting work on linguistics, informing the reader on how to correctly speak, pronounce words, and write and spell. A comprehensive exposition of the whole subject of language, including speaking, reading, and writing, to avoid of the most gross errors and promote the elegance of the English language. With instruction on types of works, tenses, how to 'correctly' pronounce vowels and constants, which syllable should be exaggerated in some works, such as accessory, subaltern, and geometrical. Written by Charles Platt under the pseudonym Professor Duncan. Dated from the British Library. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. The odd pencil annotation or crease to the page edges. Age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's ink stamp to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 905T52

Catalogue: Social Sciences

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