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  • Tyndales bible was clearer and more poetic than
    Wycliffe's early version
  • was published by Robert cowdrey in 1604 containig 2543 hard words
    The first english dictionary
  • Proposed the Establishment of an academy of the English Language, but it was never realized
    Jhonathan swift, supported by John Dryden and Daniel Defoe
  • who printed the new testament in secrecy in 1526
    William Tyndale
  • made the english translation of the bible in 1384
    John Whyliffe
  • The first English newspaper arrived in 1622 follolwed by
    The london gazette in 1665
  • 1755 was the first reliable English dictionary, but it was plagued by inconsistencies in spelling and definitions
    Samuel Jhonson's Dictionary of the English Laguage
  • significantly changed the English Language in the late 16th and early 17th centuries also introduced countless phrases in common use today
    william shakespeare
  • were the introduction of the book of common prayer
    two milestones in english literature
  • Was published in 1611 by a commitee of 54 scholars to standardize new bible
    The king James bible
  • also known as the golden age of English Literature
    the early Modern period of the 16th to 18th
  • changed official attitudes towards an English bible leading to the publication of several new English leading to the publication of several new English language bible by 1539, including the coverdale bible, great bible, geneva bible.
    Roman Catholicism