Year: | 1582 | |||
Short description: | Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published | |||
Medium description: | Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published. Contains list of the spellings of 9000 commonly used words (Salmon) (Starnes & Noyes (1991) state 8000). '[T]he first consistent attempt to codify and promulgate detailed rules for normalising and regularising traditional English spelling' (Lass, 1999:20) Concerned more with written then printed text (Salmon). | |||
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