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  2. Early Modern English - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Richard Mulcaster - Wikipedia

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    Richard Mulcaster (ca. 1531, Carlisle, Cumberland – 15 April 1611, Essex) is known best for his headmasterships of Merchant Taylors' School and St Paul's School, both then in London, and for his pedagogic writings.

  4. William Bullokar - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Roger Ascham - Wikipedia

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    Roger Ascham (/ ˈ æ s k ə m /; c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) [1] was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.

  6. Robert Cawdrey - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Thomas Elyot - Wikipedia

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    The subject was a favourite one in the 16th century, and the book, which contained many citations from classical authors, was very popular. Elyot expressly acknowledges his obligations to Erasmus 's Institutio Principis Christiani but he makes no reference to the De regno et regis institutione of Francesco Patrizzi (died 1494), bishop of Gaeta ...

  8. John Hart (spelling reformer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Thomas Wilson (rhetorician) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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