Spell it out david crystal pdf6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Spelling noises - Unspellable noises - 35. Exotic consonants - The spread of education - 34. Unpredictability - Ogden Nash on names - 32. Changing practices - Roger McGough on spelling - 29. ![]() Printers and publishers - Spelling wars - 28. Spelling `rules' - Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling - 25. More etymologies - A word I always mispell - 23. Includes bibliographical references and indexesĬontents note continued: 22. By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right He unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, and explains why these peculiarities entered the mainstream, in an epic journey taking in sixth century monks, French and Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution and the internet. Seventy-five percent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five percent is complicated, and in "Spell It Out", our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused and curious alike. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to the foreign ears, and it stuck. This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles 'stationery' from 'stationary' - and explains why the 'i before e except after c' rule is so misleading. ![]()
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