William Bullokar
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Who is William Bullokar?
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. Bullokar also wrote the first published grammar of the English language, which appeared in 1586.
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