William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. Its characters were in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time. Taking as his model a Latin grammar by William Lily, Bullokar wrote the first published grammar of the English language, in a book titled Brief Grammar for English, which appeared in 1586.
Works
, facsimile edition: facsimile in Bullokar (1977) transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 237-330
transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 1-212
transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 213-235
facsimile in Bullokar (1977) transcription at Plessow (1906), pp. 331-385