Ash's dictionary was valuable for the number of obsolete and provincial words contained in it. It seemed that "Ash understood much better than Lowth what it took to write a grammar for children."^[7]

Works

• Grammatical Institutes (a.k.a. Grammatical Institutes; or, an Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar: Designed for the Use of Schools, and to lead Young Gentlemen and Ladies into the Knowledge of the First Principles of the English Language). London, 1760.
• New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1775)

References

2. Linguistic History notes
3. Notes about John Ash at Random House's Word of the Day
4. Reference to Ash's New and Complete Dictionary.
5. Notes
6. Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Texts pertaining to the Study of English in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain (at Emory.edu)
7. The codifiers and the English language: tracing the norms of Standard English