Author:Henry Sweet

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Henry Sweet
(1845–1912)

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English philologist, phonetician and grammarian

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "H. Sw."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "H. Sw."

Works

English language

Anglo-Saxon Primer Gutenberg
A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical
- ⁠Part I. Introduction, Phonology, and Accidence
A Short Historical English Grammar
A Primer of Historical English Grammar
History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period. With full Word-Lists
An Anglo-Saxon Primer, with Grammar, Notes, and Glossary
An Anglo-Saxon Reader. In Prose and Verse. With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary
A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader
Old English Reading Primers
- I. Selected Homilies of Ælfric
- II. Extracts from Alfred's Orosius
First Middle English Primer, with Grammar and Glossary.
Second Middle English Primer. Extracts from Chaucer, with Grammar and Glossary.
A Primer of Spoken English
The student's dictionary of Anglo-Saxon 1911

Other linguistic works

An Icelandic Primer
An Icelandic Primer, 1st ed. (1886) (external scan)

An Icelandic Primer, 2nd ed. (1895) (transcription project)
A Handbook of Phonetics (1877) [1]
A Primer of Phonetics
A Manual of Current Shorthand, Orthographic and Phonetic

As editor

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) (transcription project)

Encyclopædia Britannica

"Esperanto," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Grimm, Wilhelm Carl," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Phonetics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Universal Languages," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Volapük," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Sweet

"Sweet, Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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