Righting the Mother Tongue From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling

Name: Righting the Mother Tongue From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
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ISBN: 9780061369254

ISBN-10: 006136925X

ISBN-13: 9780061369254

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Wolman

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Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets with spelling reformers outside the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium, not England, where the first English books were printed, and takes a road-trip with the boss at Merriam-Webster Inc. The journey is punctuated by spelling battles waged by the likes of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English