William Bullokar

William Bullokar

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. Its characters were in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time. Bullokar also wrote the first published grammar of the English language, which appeared in 1586.

Works

* "Booke at large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English speech", Henry Dehman, 1580
* "Bref Garmmar for English", 1586

References

* Clair, Colin. "History of Printing in Britain", Oxford University Press, 1966. Pl. 25.
* http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng520/emenglish.htm


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