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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. 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 in Bullokars Booke at large, 1580, p. 20
Bullokar's alphabet.

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    • 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

  • History of English grammars
  • English-language spelling reform
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