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Start year:
1514
End year:
1557
Short description:
Life of Sir John Cheke
Medium description:
Life of Sir John Cheke.
Regius Professor of Greek; English spelling reformer
Tags:
history of English
in Britain
orthography
Howard, Philip (1990). A Word in Time. London: Sinclair-Stevenson Limited [p.2]
Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.81]
Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.266]