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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. Bullokar also wrote the first published grammar of the English language, which appeared in 1586.

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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