Skip to main content
Login
  1. Home
  2. Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician
  3. Synopsis and General Conclusions
Open Book Publishers

Synopsis and General Conclusions

  • Gary D. German (author)
Chapter of: Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician: Vol. 2: Colonial American Voices and London Norms: Franklin’s Quest for an Orthographic Reform
  • Export Metadata
  • Metadata
  • Locations
  • Contributors

Export Metadata

Metadata
TitleSynopsis and General Conclusions
ContributorGary D. German (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0537.31
Landing pagehttp://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0537/chapters/10.11647/obp.0537.31
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightGary D. German
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2026-05-05
Print length48 pages
THEMA
  • CFF
  • CFH
  • CFB
  • DNBH
  • NHK
  • JBCC9
BISAC
  • LAN009010
  • LAN011000
  • LAN009050
  • HIS036030
  • BIO006000
  • SOC024000
Keywords
  • Orthography
  • Historical Phonology
  • Historical Sociolinguistics
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • dialectology
  • New Englishes
  • Reformed Mode of Spelling (RMS)
Locations
Landing PageFull text URLPlatform
PDFhttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0537/chapters/10.11647/obp.0537.31Landing pagehttps://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0537.31.pdfFull text URL
HTMLhttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0537/chapters/10.11647/obp.0537.31Landing pagehttps://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0537/conclusion.xhtmlFull text URLPublisher Website
Contributors

Gary D. German

(author)

Gary D. (Manchec) German is a dual French and American national. Born in Paris, he was raised in a multilingual household with deep family roots in Finistère, Lancashire, North Wales and America (Massachusetts & Virginia). He is currently an emeritus professor of English at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale de Brest (Western Brittany, France) where he taught English phonology & grammar, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics from 1999-2018. He has been a member of the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (UBO) for forty-five years. In this capacity, he taught Breton historical phonology, Breton dialectology and Middle Welsh literature. Previously, he taught English language and linguistics at the Universities of Nantes, Poitiers as well as French & English at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (near Washington DC).

Export Metadata

UK registered social enterprise and Community Interest Company (CIC).

Company registration 14549556

Metadata

  • By book
  • By publisher
  • GraphQL API
  • Export API

Resources

  • Downloads
  • Videos
  • Merch
  • Presentations
  • Service status

Contact

  • Email
  • Bluesky
  • Mastodon
  • Github

Copyright © 2026 Thoth Open Metadata. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.