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In 1561 he became the first headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, where he wrote his two treatises on education, Positions (1581) and Elementarie (1582). Merchant Taylors' School was at that time the largest school in the country, and Mulcaster worked to establish a rigorous curriculum which was to set the standard for education in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. [1] Its characters were presented in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time and also in Roman type.
It was the first English-to-Latin dictionary. [1] It occupies about 300 printed book pages. [2] Its authorship is attributed to Geoffrey the Grammarian, a friar who lived in Lynn, Norfolk, England. [3] After the invention of the printing press, the Promptorium was published repeatedly in the early 16th century by printer Wynkyn de Worde. [3]
Richard Hill's Commonplace Book is a paper manuscript of 514 numbered pages measuring 31.3 centimetres (12.3 in) vertically and 11.3 centimetres (4.4 in) horizontally, [1] a format typical of a tradesman's account book, and it has an old wrapper of limp vellum. [3]
As many new words were entering the English language in the 16th century, Cawdrey became concerned that people would become confused. Cawdrey worried that the wealthy were adopting foreign words and phrases, and wrote that "they forget altogether their mothers language, so that if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell or ...
John Hart (died 1574) was an English educator, grammarian, spelling reformer and officer of arms. [1] He is best known for proposing a reformed spelling system for English, which has been described as "the first truly phonological scheme" in the history of early English spelling. [2]
Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., [1] [2] was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) [ 3 ] and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), [ 4 ] which have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric ...