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Details for:
Freeborn, Dennis (1992). From Old English to Standard English. Basingstoke: McMillan Publishers Ltd
events
Events:
12 events from this source recorded
1362
Parliament opened by speech in English for first time.
1531
Elyot's 'The Governour' published
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1687
Cooper's 'The English Teacher' published
1710
Swift's article in Taler magazine
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1751
John Harris's 'Hermes'
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1761
Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar'
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1818
William Cobbet publishes 'Grammar of the English Language' in New York
1864
Alford's 'The Queens English' published