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. Taking as his model a Latin grammar by William Lily,[1] Bullokar wrote the first published grammar of the English language, in a book titled Brief Grammar for English, which appeared in 1586.[2]

Works
  • Bullokar, William (1580). Booke at large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English Speech. London: Henrie Denham.,
  • Bullokar, William (1584). Æsops Fábĺz. London: Edmund Bollifant.
  • Bullokar, William (n.d.) [1585]. The short Sentences of the wýʒ Cato. London: Edmund Bollifant.
  • Bullokar, William (1586). Bref Grammar for English. London: Edmund Bollifant.
    • facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
    • transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 331-385
  • Bullokar, William (1586). Pamphlet for Grammar. London: Edmund Bollifant.

Bibliography
gollark: They are important. Words aren't clear cut definitions like, say, mathematical objects, and the dictionary just points to some common uses.
gollark: Great!
gollark: That's not actually what I said.
gollark: I failed to come up with a non-politically-charged example so I'll just use a horribly politically charged one: people arguing over statements like "abortion is murder" is pointless, as you're basically just arguing over whether you get to associate it with bad things or not, instead of getting to the actual underlying questions about, say, rights of unborn babies.
gollark: It doesn't help your argument, or help people more accurately think about the actions, or whatever.

See also

References
  1. "The History of English Grammar". lawyerment.com. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  2. Valeika, Laimutis; Buitkiene, Janina (2003). An Introductory Course in Theoretical English Grammar (PDF). Vilnius Pedagogical University. p. 7. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  • Clair, Colin. History of Printing in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pl. 25.


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