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Year:
1644
Short description:
Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published
Medium description:
Richard Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published.
Had "a profound influence on the regularisation of English spelling" (Salmon) in the period.
Tags:
history of linguistics
pronunciation
orthography
Knowles, G. (1979). A Cultural History of The English Language. London: Arnold [p.107]
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.43]