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Year:
1540
Short description:
Cheke's simplified spelling system
Medium description:
Sir John Cheke's simplified spelling system devised sometime around 1540 but not published till 19th century.
Tags:
history of English
orthography
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 [p.20]