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William Bullokar

English printer

William Bullokar
Summary

English printer

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. Its characters were presented in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time and also in Roman type. 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.

Bullokar's alphabet.

Works

    • scan:
    • facsimile edition:
    • facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
    • transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 237-330
    • facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
    • transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 331-385

Bibliography

References

References

  1. Clair, Colin. (1976). "A History of European Printing". Academic Press.
  2. "The History of English Grammar". .
  3. (2003). "An Introductory Course in Theoretical English Grammar". Vilnius Pedagogical University.
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