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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.
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.
The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use. By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised:
English ladies were often taught an "Italian hand", suitable for the occasional writing that they were expected to do. [4] Grace Ioppolo notes [ 2 ] that the convention in writing the texts of dramas was to write act and scene settings, characters' names and stage directions in italic, and the dialogue in secretary hand.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... one for each single letter of the alphabet. [3] Works
As noted earlier, in the 16th century, some scholars of Greek and Latin literature tried to make English words look more like their Graeco-Latin counterparts, at times even erroneously. They did this by adding silent letters, so det became debt , dout became doubt , sithe became scythe , iland became island , ake became ache , and so on.
English: Ornamental latin alphabet from the 16th century, missing the letters J, O, W, X and Z. Vectorized with Inkscape from the original scan at [1] , then restored for optimal appearance. Letter illustrations:
Malachim was an alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century. [1] Other alphabets with a similar origin are the Celestial Alphabet [2] and Transitus Fluvii. [3] "Malachim" is a plural form from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach) and means "angels" or "messengers", see Angels in Judaism.