Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling by David Crystal

Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling

David Crystal

336 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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