William Bullokar

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.

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