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William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the
English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...
. Its characters were in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time. Taking as his model a Latin grammar by William Lily, Bullokar wrote the first published grammar of the English language, in a book titled ''Brief Grammar for English'', which appeared in 1586.


Works

* , ** facsimile edition: ** facsimile in Bullokar (1977) ** transcription at Plessow (1906)
pp. 237-330
* ** transcription at Plessow (1906)
pp. 1-212
* ** transcription at Plessow (1906)
pp. 213-235
* ** facsimile in Bullokar (1977) ** transcription at Plessow (1906)
pp. 331-385
* ** transcription at Plessow (1906)
pp. 386-390


See also

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History of English grammars The history of English grammars begins late in the sixteenth century with the ''Pamphlet for Grammar'' by William Bullokar. In the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin. A more modern approach, incorpo ...
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English-language spelling reform For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language. It seeks to change English orthography so that it is more consistent, matches pronunciation better, and follows the alphabetic principle. Common motives for ...


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References

* Clair, Colin. ''History of Printing in Bri'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullokar, William English orthography Linguists of English Orthographers 16th-century English people Year of birth missing Year of death missing