Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types : Including a Re-arrangement of F.J. Child's Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521. Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries : Lediard, Bonaparte, Schmeller, Winkler. Received American and Irish pronunciation of English. Phonological introduction to dialects