William Bullokar

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



Works

 * facsimile edition:
 * facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 237-330
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 1-212
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 213-235
 * facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 331-385
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 386-390
 * facsimile in Bullokar (1977)
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 331-385
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 386-390
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 386-390
 * transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 386-390