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Pamphlet for grammar by william bullokar pdf

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On this day in history, 4th March 1609, Tudor spelling reformer and grammarian William Bullokar died at Chichester in West Sussex.

William Bullokar is known for writing the first grammar book of English, the “Pamphlet for Grammar”, and for his work reforming the alphabet to improve literacy.

Find out more about him and what he did in this talk…

Also on this day in Tudor history, 4th March 1522, at the court of Henry VIII, the Chateau Vert pageant took place. Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn were two of the participants in this lavish pageant.

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History of English grammars

The history of English grammars[1][2] begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar. In the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin. A more modern approach, incorporating phonology, was introduced in the nineteenth century.

Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

The first English grammar, Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar, written with the seeming goal of demonstrating that English was quite as rule-bound as Latin, was published in 1586.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modelled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534).[9] Lily's grammar was being used in schools in England at the time, having been "prescribed" for them in 1542 by Henry VIII.[5] Although Bullokar wrote his grammar in English and used a "reformed spelling system" of his own invention, many English grammars, for much of the century after Bull

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William Bullokar

English printer

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language.[1] 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,[2] Bullokar wrote the first published grammar of the English language, in a book titled Brief Grammar for English, which appeared in 1586.[3]

Works

  • Bullokar, William (1580). A short Introduction or guiding to print, write, and reade Inglish speech. London: Henrie Denham.
  • 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.: CS1 maint: year (link)
  • Bullokar, William (1586). Bref Grammar for English. London: Edmund Bollifant.
    • facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
    • transcript

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