Early Modern English 15th-18th Centuary
- Created by: Craig
- Created on: 27-05-13 13:43
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Caxton printing press (15thC)
- Easily replicated form of english
- Written English more accesible to public
English Bibles
- Tyndale's - first published, was illegal to trasnlate bible to english (16thC)
- King James' - official English publication (17thC)
Grammarians
- 16thC John Hart - punctuation marks
- 18thC Robert Louth - used Latin as a template for English
- Lynn Truss 2003 -eats,shoots and Leaves
- Perscriptivists
- Some Grammarians blame printing for diversity in orthography…
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