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| 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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- Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.89]
- Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.205]
- Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.186]
- Crystal, David (2012). Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. London: Profile Books Ltd [p.99]
- 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]
- Barker, William (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, [Accessed 0000-00-00]
- Starnes, D. W. T. & Noyes, G. E. (1991). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson. 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press [p.10]