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

Works

• Booke at large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English speech, Henrie Denham, 1580 (copy on Archive.org)
• Bref Grammar for English, 1586
• Bullokar, William, Booke at Large for the Amendment of English Orthographie (1580) with A Bref Grammar for English (1586), Facsimile ed., 2 vols. in 1, 1977. Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1287-9.

References

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