EME Spelling and Pronunciation Summary

Question 1

when was the beginning of dramatic changes?

Answer 1

the fifteenth century

Question 2

• What was going on in the fifteenth century? (9 things)

Answer 2

• The Renaissance
  
  • The Reformation
  • Exploration
  • Printing
  • Rise in literacy
  • The Plague
  • The breakdown of medieval society
  • Urbanization
• The breakdown of the dominance of the Catholic Church

Question 3

The Reformation was:

Answer 3

Opposition to the established church

Question 4

the Reformation wanted to

Answer 4

reach a wide audience of common people without formal education

Question 5

Printing with moveable type invented by who and where?

Answer 5

Johann Gutenberg (c. 1450) in Mainz, Germany

Question 6

William Caxton (1422? – 1492?) was the :

Answer 6

First printer in England (1476)

Question 7

In Old and Middle English, there was a high correlation between:

Answer 7

spoken words and written words (but A LOT OF VARIATION IN SPELLING)

Question 8

• “Etymological” respellings during the Renaissance:

Answer 8

advice (taken from French AVIS), respelled to be like latin “advisum”