Henry Sweet (15 September 1845 – 30 April 1912) was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian. In 1864, he spent a short time studying at Heidelberg University. The Oldest English Texts (1885) and A Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (1896).
In 1877, Sweet published A Handbook of Phonetics, which attracted international attention among scholars and teachers of English in Europe. His emphasis on spoken language and phonetics made him a pioneer in language teaching, a subject which he covered in detail in The Practical Study of Languages (1899). The Sounds of English (1908) was his last book on English pronunciation.), and a number of other works he edited for the Early English Text Society. Sweet was also closely involved in the early history of the Oxford English Dictionary. His relationship with the Oxford University Press was often strained.
Other interests
In Who's Who, 1911, Sweet gave his recreations as: