The History of English Spelling reveals the history of Modern English spelling, tracing its origins and development from Old English up to the present day.Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere elseFeatures a complementary website with additional material at www.historyofenglishspelling.infoIncludes detailed coverage of the contributions from French, Latin, Greek - and the many other languages - to our current orthographyServes as a companion volume to Geoffrey Hughes's A History of English Words in the same series

Product Description: This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. It shows the respective influences on modern usage of native French and Latin orthographies and attempts a definition of the manner in which spelling stabilized...read more

Product Description: When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters...read more

A lively look at the evolution of modern-day English spelling traces the history of the English language from ancient Celtic runes to the present day and reveals why so many English words appear to be spelled in an irrational, chaotic, and illogical way. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Provides a look at the history of spelling and explains why spelling is still important.

Product Description: Most people with any interest in the English language know that it has the worst alphabetic spelling system in the world. What they don't know in any great detail, however, is how this sorry situation came about. They don't know, for instance, that a 17th-century English schoolmaster named Edmund Coote had a major role...read more