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Chapter 8        And the Word Became...Print!

  1. In 1456 Johann Gutenberg invented __________________     ____________ and the printing press was born.
  2. The first book he printed was ______________________________.
  3. Before the printing press, books had to be either hand copied or stamped with tediously hand-carved __________________  _______________.
  4. The new availability of books meant that it was suddenly very fashionable to be able to _________________.
  5. Who set up the first printing press in England? _________________________________
  6. What English city's dialect became the standard for spelling English words? __________________________
  7. The word knight is not spelled the way it is pronounced because the invention of the printing press slowed down changes in _______________________________ more than changes in ____________________.
  8. As printing standardized the way words were spelled, a huge shift in pronunciation was already in process and is continuing today. That shift is called ________________________________________.

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