March 4 - William Bullokar and his 40-letter alphabet

March 4 - William Bullokar and his 40-letter alphabet

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On this day in history, 4th March 1609, Tudor spelling reformer and grammarian William Bullokar died at Chichester in West Sussex. William Bullokar is known for writing the first grammar book of English, the "Pamphlet for Grammar", and for his work reforming the alphabet to improve literacy. Find out more about him and what he did in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, author of "On This Day in Tudor History". Link to read “Bullokar’s booke at large, for the amendment of orthographie for English speech” - https://archive.org/details/bullokarsbookeat00bull/page/n6/mode/2up You can see this podcast as a video at the following link: https://youtu.be/n_GKQMR2myA Also on this day in Tudor history, 4th March 1522, at the court of Henry VIII, the Chateau Vert pageant took place. Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn were two of the participants in this lavish pageant, and you can find out all about it in last year’s video - https://youtu.be/ChANxD0evtM You can find Claire at: https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com https://www.tudorsociety.com https://www.facebook.com/theanneboleynfiles/ https://www.facebook.com/tudorsociety/ https://twitter.com/AnneBoleynFiles https://twitter.com/thetudorsociety https://www.instagram.com/tudor.society/ https://www.instagram.com/anneboleynfiles/

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