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Spell It Out by David Crystal
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- 9781846685682
- Publication Year
- 2013
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- Paperback
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- English
- Book Title
- Spell It Out: the Singular Story of English Spelling
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- 198mm
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- Profile Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 281g
- Number of Pages
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Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused and curious alike. He unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, and explains why these peculiarities entered the mainstream, in an epic journey taking in sixth century monks, French and Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution and the internet. By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right.
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Book Title
Spell It Out: the Singular Story of English Spelling
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
281g
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