A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English.

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Creator

Ann Fisher

Title

A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English.

Coverage

Newcastle

Publisher

Thomas Slack

Date

1762

Subject

7th ed.

Description

Born in Cumberland, Fisher (1719–1778) became a business partner with her printer-husband Thomas Slack, who founded the Newcastle Chronicle. The mother of nine, she wrote many pedagogical works. This grammar is in the form of a catechism—a long series of questions and answers. She is remembered chiefly as the grammarian who first stated a rule that still sparks controversy: that the masculine pronoun includes the feminine.