Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Crystal, David, 1941- Title: Spell it out : the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling / David Crystal. Edition: First U.S. edition. Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013. ©2012. Description: vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects: English language -- Orthography and spelling. English language -- Orthography and spelling -- History. Notes: Previously published by Profile Books, London, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: The nature of the problem: Pooh and his friends on spelling -- The beginning -- The size of the problem -- Building the alphabet: letter origins -- The basic weaknesses: hope for us all -- Keeping things long: more than letters -- Keeping things short: spelling as tragedy -- The first exceptions -- Seeing the link: forensic spelling -- Know your Latin and French: spelling as reputation -- New letters for the old -- Old letters in new words: Tarzan learns to read -- Old sounds in new positions: spelling as stratagem -- New sounds in old places -- More exceptions: avoiding the vulgar -- Showing the difference: Charles Dickens and his characters reflect upon spelling -- Noting the similarity: silent letters -- New sounds in old letters -- A printer's practice: Mark Twain on spelling -- The urge to reform: George Bernard Shaw on spelling -- Remembering Latin -- More etymologies: a word I always mispell -- Famous spellings -- Spelling 'rules': Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling -- The role of personalities -- Another personality -- Printers and publishers: spelling wars -- Changing practices: Roger McGough on spelling -- The internet: lower case only -- Showing identity -- Unpredictability: Ogden Nash on names -- Exotic vowels: disenvowelling -- Exotic consonants: the spread of education -- Spelling noises: unspellable noises -- Abbreviating -- Learning the system: George Crabbe on learning -- The future of English spelling. A teaching appendix: Avoiding isloation ; Towards a linguistics of spelling. LCCN: 2013010521 ISBN: 9781250003478 1250003474 Other Number: 811597563 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 361029 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: 421.52 Crystal Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
