Re: Etymology - "hornbook"

From: Franklin Weston (faw@pwa.acusd.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 1995 - 11:17:21 PDT


According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., a hornbook is a
leaf of paper containing the alphabet, the numbers, and the Lord's
Prayer, which was protected by a thin layer of translucent horn, and

It lists A.W. Tuer, History of the Horn-Book (1896).

Frank Weston

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