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Student _________________________
Date ___________________________
Chapter 8 And the Word
Became...Print!
- In 1456 Johann Gutenberg invented __________________ ____________ and the
printing press was born.
- The first book he printed was ______________________________.
- Before the printing press, books had to be
either hand copied or stamped with tediously hand-carved __________________ _______________.
- The new availability of books meant that it was suddenly very fashionable
to be able to _________________.
- Who set up the first printing press in England?
_________________________________
- What English city's dialect became the standard for spelling English
words? __________________________
- 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 ____________________.
- 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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