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| Year: | 1550 | ||
| Short description: | Cheke's "Gospel According to St Matthew" | ||
| Medium description: | Sir John Cheke's "Gospel According to St Matthew" "..obsessive in its rejection of" inkhorn terms according to Piercy. Written using his ideas for a new spelling system (Salmon). [Salmon states 1549] | ||
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- Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.105]
- 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]