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Name Life Dates Gender Class
Burn, John unknown male unknown
Place of Birth Occupation Occupation Description
unknown, unknown, unknown Writing grammarian, elocutionist

Biography

Life dates unknown. In the dictionary he says that he has studied the English language for more than 40 years. The first edition is from 1777; this suggests that he was born no later than about 1730.
 
Author of 'The Practical English Grammar'.

Author Works

Title Year Published Edition  
A pronouncing dictionary of the English language. Glasgow, Printed by Alex. Adam for the author.
 1786 2 Burn, John (1786)
Citation
Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP), 2015. Compiled by Joan C. Beal, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Ranjan Sen, and Christine Wallis. The University of Sheffield and Universidade de Vigo. Published by: The Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.dhi.ac.uk/ecep>.
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