"Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician" (opens in new tab)

The second open-access monograph in the Publications of the Philological Society has just come out, in two volumes: Gary D. German, Benjamin Franklin: Orthoepist and Phonetician — Vol. 1: Language, Literacy and Social Mobility in Franklin’s World. Vol. 2: Colonial American Voices and London Norms: Franklin’s Quest for an Orthographic Reform. And the Philological Society […]