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Details for:
Salmon, Vivian (1999). Orthography and Punctuation. in Lass, Roger.
The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume iii 1476-1776
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.13-55
events
Events:
22 events from this source recorded
1422
Brewers Guild begin to keep records in English
1530
Rastell's spelling recommendations
1540
Cheke's simplified spelling system
1549
Cheke uses simplified spelling in personal letter
1550
Cheke's "Gospel According to St Matthew"
1551
John Hart's 'The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our English Tongue' written
1561
Mulcaster Headmaster of Merchant Taylors'
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1570
Mulcaster's "A Methode"
1573
Mulcaster's revised alphabet
1573
Baret's 'Triple Dictionarie'
1576
Whythorne's autobiography
1579
2nd of Allde's simplified spelling publications
1580
3rd of Allde's publications
1580
Baret's quadrilingual dictionary
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1617
Hume's "Of the Orthographie of the Britain Tongue"
1623
Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie'
1634
Butler's 'The English Grammar' published
1640
Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published
1644
Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published