Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling
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2012
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| Beschreibung: | VII, 328 S. Ill., Kt. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781846685675 9781846685682 9781847658227 |
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| adam_text | Why is there an h in ghost, but not in goati Why
is there a silent b in debt? Why is
/
before
e
except
after
с
(except, of course, half the time it isn t)?
How did we end up with row (an argument) and
row (a boat) being spelled the same? Where did
the spellings
oí
chutzpah and brunette come from?
And how do we spell the noises we make when
we re disgusted?
The answer to all these questions
-
and to some
of English spelling s most baffling eccentricities
-
lies deep in the history of our language. Foremost
linguistics expert David Crystal unravels a story
that begins with an obscure Germanic dialect and
ends with a global language
—
via lazy medieval
monks, French and Latin upstarts, American
independence,
Dr
Johnson, Shakespeare and
the Internet.
Spell It Out extends a helping hand to the confused
and curious alike: armed with the history and the
principles, you ll make great strides towards
mastering the complexities in English spelling,
and get to the bottom of why the peculiarities
entered the language in the first place.
Contents
Introduction
1
1
The nature of the problem
Pooh and his friends on spelling
6
11
2
The beginning
12
3
The size of the problem
15
4
Building the alphabet
Letter origins
20
26
5
The basic weaknesses
Hope for us all
32
40
6
Keeping things long
More than letters
41
52
7
Keeping things short
Spelling as tragedy
53
59
8
The first exceptions
60
9
Seeing the link
Forensic spelling
67
72
10
Know your
Latín
and French
Spelling as reputation
73
77
11
New letters for old
78
12
Old letters in new words
86
Tarzan
learns to read
90
13
Old sounds in new positions
92
Spelling as stratagem
95
14
New sounds in old places
96
15
More exceptions
104
Avoiding the vulgar
112
16
Showing the difference
113
Charles Dickens and his characters reflect upon
spelling
120
17
Noting the similarity
Silent letters
121
128
18
New sounds in old letters
129
19
A printer s practice
Mark Twain on spelling
136
144
20
The urge to reform
George Bernard Shaw on spelling
145
152
21
Remembering Latin
153
22
More etymologies
A word I always mispell
162
168
23
Famous spellings
169
24
Spelling rales
Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling
175
186
25
The role of personalities
188
26
Another personality
196
27
Printers and publishers
Spelling wars
201
209
28
Changing practices
Roger McGough on spelling
210
215
29
The Internet
Lower case only
216
222
ЗО
Showing identity
223
31
Unpredictability
Ogden Nash on names
230
235
32
Exotic vowels
Disenvowelling
236
241
33
Exotic consonants
The spread of education
242
248
34
Spelling noises
Unspellable noises
249
253
35
Abbreviating
254
36
Learning the system
George Crabbe on learning
261
269
37
The future of English spelling
270
A teaching appendix
І
Avoiding isolation
II Towards a linguistics of spelling
279
286
Further reading
Illustration credits
Index of words
General index
293
294
295
320
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