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Spell it out : the story of English spelling / by David Crystal.

Spell it out : the story of English spelling / by David Crystal.
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Name Crystal, David, 1941-
Title Spell it out : the story of English spelling / by David Crystal.
Published London : Profile Books, 2012.
Description vii., 328 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.The nature of the problem -- Pooh and his friends on spelling -- 2.The beginning -- 3.The size of the problem -- 4.Building the alphabet -- Letter origins -- 5.The basic weaknesses -- Hope for us all -- 6.Keeping things long -- More than letters -- 7.Keeping things short -- Spelling as tragedy -- 8.The first exceptions -- 9.Seeing the link -- Forensic spelling -- 10.Know your Latin and French -- Spelling as reputation -- 11.New letters for old -- 12.Old letters in new words -- Tarzan learns to read -- 13.Old sounds in new positions -- Spelling as stratagem -- 14.New sounds in old places -- 15.More exceptions -- Avoiding the vulgar -- 16.Showing the difference -- Charles Dickens and his characters reflect upon spelling -- 17.Noting the similarity -- Silent letters -- 18.New sounds in old letters -- 19.A printer's practice -- Mark Twain on spelling -- 20.The urge to reform -- George Bernard Shaw on spelling -- 21.Remembering Latin --
Contents note continued: 22.More etymologies -- A word I always mispell -- 23.Famous spellings -- 24.Spelling `rules' -- Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling -- 25.The role of personalities -- 26.Another personality -- 27.Printers and publishers -- Spelling wars -- 28.Changing practices -- Roger McGough on spelling -- 29.The Internet -- Lower case only -- 30.Showing identity -- 31.Unpredictability -- Ogden Nash on names -- 32.Exotic vowels -- Disenvowelling -- 33.Exotic consonants -- The spread of education -- 34.Spelling noises -- Unspellable noises -- 35.Abbreviating -- 36.Learning the system -- George Crabbe on learning -- 37.The future of English spelling -- A teaching appendix -- I.Avoiding isolation -- II.Towards a linguistics of spelling.
Subjects English language -- Orthography and spelling
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