Evidence: | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Boswell in the Life of Samuel Johnson:
"A Cambridge University Library copy of the first edition [1791] annotated in at least four hands has in the margin at that point a list of words that would appear to refute Johnson's statement: 'Shepherd / Cowherd / Abhor / Behave / Uphold / Exhaust' (1: 166). Then a note by a later reader remarks, 'N.B. All but one of these are compound words where h begins ye first syllable of ye simple word.'" |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
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Title: | Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: annotation in printed text |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5564 | |
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Author: | H. J. Jackson | |
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Title: | Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
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Page: | 177-78 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 177-78, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5564, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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