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单词 spelling-book
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spelling-bookn.

Etymology: spelling n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspelling-book.
A book designed to teach spelling.
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speller1864
1677 T. Lye (title) New Spelling-Book.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 296. ⁋1 By the Assistance of a Spelling-Book it's legible.
1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 332 Buried alive in their Hall under a great heap of Primers and Spelling-books.
a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) I. 20 Tom Brown..‘published a spelling-book, and dedicated it to the Universe’.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 119 Superintending the different exercises of the needle, the spelling-book, and the slate.
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa (1854) xx. 177 Nature is a schoolmaster that teaches without spelling-books.
attributive.1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 270 [The hyphen] has given employment..to a number of Spelling-Book-Authors.1835 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah (1864) 421 They designate the education which their opponents recommend as a mere spelling-book education.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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