William Bullokar

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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.

[edit] Works

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

[edit] References

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