Spell it out: the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling
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2013
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| Item Description: | Previously published by London : Profile Books, 2012. |
| Physical Description: | VII, 328 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781250003478 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
1
1
The nature of the problem
6
Pooh and his friends on spelling
11
2
The beginning
12
3
The size of the problem
15
4
Building the alphabet
20
Letter origins
26
5
The basic weaknesses
32
Hope for us all
40
6
Keeping things long
41
More than letters
52
7
Keeping things short
53
Spelling as tragedy
59
8
The first exceptions
60
9
Seeing the link
67
Forensic spelling
72
10
Know your Latin and French
73
Spelling as reputation
77
VI
11
New
letters
for old
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
121
Silent letters
128
18
New sounds in old letters
129
19
A printer s practice
Mark Twain on spelling
144
20
The urge to reform
145
George Bernard Shaw on spelling
152
21
Remembering Latin
153
22
More etymologies
162
A word
1
always mispell
168
23
Famous spellings
169
24
Spelling rules
175
Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling
186
25
The role of personalities
188
26
Another personality
196
vu
27 Printers
and publishers
201
Spelling wars
209
28
Changing practices
210
Roger McGough on spelling
215
29
The Internet
216
Lower case only
222
30
Showing identity
223
31
Unpredictability
230
Ogden Nash on names
235
32
Exotic vowels
236
Disenvowelling
241
33
Exotic consonants
242
The spread of education
248
34
Spelling noises
249
Vnspellable noises
253
35
Abbreviating
254
36
Learning the system
261
George Crabbe on learning
269
37
The future of English spelling
270
A teaching appendix
I Avoiding isolation
279
II Towards a linguistics of spelling
286
Further reading
293
Illustration credits
294
Index of words
295
General index
320
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The Story of English in I OO
Words, David Crystal took
us on a tour through the
history of our language. Now, with Spell It
Out, he takes on the task of answering
all the questions about how we
speli:
Why is English spelling so difficult? or
Why are good spellers so proud of their
achievement that when they see a mis¬
spelling they condemn the writer as sloppy,
lazy, or uneducated? in zhif^y-se^en short,
engaging, and informative chapters, inter¬
spersed with some entertaining interludes,
Crystal takes readers on a history of
English spelling, starting with the Roman
missionaries sixth-century inzroduczion of
the Roman alphabet and ending with where
the language is going today. He explains the
way the spelling system was made more
complex through the influence of French,
Latin, and other languages, plots the origins
of American English spelling, and investi¬
gates the continuing impact of technology,
from printing to the Internet. If you ve ever
asked yourself questions like Why is there
a silent
b
in debt? Where do ail those
ough spellings come from? or How can I
remember the difference between stationary
and stationery? David Crystal s Spell It Out
will spefl it
alf guz
for you.
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