Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, (Paperback)
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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, (Paperback)
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from gbelik
Why is English spelling so bizarre? Here are some of the answers. Also, lots about various efforts to simplify out spelling and why they fail. Informative and enjoyable.
from BoundTogetherForGood
This book was somewhat disappointing. It started out okay and then fizzled. It never gave me quite the information that I was hoping for.
from Kasthu
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, is, as the title suggests, the humorous, condensed story of the development of English spelling. The study of English spelling, or orthography, is complicated; our language has influences from many diff...
from fundevogel
This is a great little book about English spelling, how it got so weird and what people think of it. Wolman presents an easily digestible look at the path written English has taken to arrive at its current state. It's certainly not comprehensive and the linguistics stay pretty light, but I thin...
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