Spell it out
the curious enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling
Spell it out
the curious enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling
Book - 2013
Presents a history of English spelling through chapters that cover such topics as the introduction of the Roman alphabet, each letter's origins, and the development of long and short vowels.
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| 37413314652019 | Sẵn có | Non-fiction | 421.52 CRYSTAL |
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2013.
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| Phiên bản: | First U.S. edition. |
| Những chủ đề: |
MARC
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Spell it out : |b the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling / |c David Crystal. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b St. Martin's Press, |c 2013. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2012 | |
| 300 | |a vii, 328 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Previously published by Profile Books, London, 2012. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The nature of the problem: Pooh and his friends on spelling -- |t The beginning -- |t The size of the problem -- |t Building the alphabet: letter origins -- |t The basic weaknesses: hope for us all -- |t Keeping things long: more than letters -- |t Keeping things short: spelling as tragedy -- |t The first exceptions -- |t Seeing the link: forensic spelling -- |t Know your Latin and French: spelling as reputation -- |t New letters for the old -- |t Old letters in new words: Tarzan learns to read -- |t Old sounds in new positions: spelling as stratagem -- |t New sounds in old places -- |t More exceptions: avoiding the vulgar -- |t Showing the difference: Charles Dickens and his characters reflect upon spelling -- |t Noting the similarity: silent letters -- |t New sounds in old letters -- |t A printer's practice: Mark Twain on spelling -- |t The urge to reform: George Bernard Shaw on spelling -- |t Remembering Latin -- |t More etymologies: a word I always mispell -- |t Famous spellings -- |t Spelling 'rules': Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling -- |t The role of personalities -- |t Another personality -- |t Printers and publishers: spelling wars -- |t Changing practices: Roger McGough on spelling -- |t The internet: lower case only -- |t Showing identity -- |t Unpredictability: Ogden Nash on names -- |t Exotic vowels: disenvowelling -- |t Exotic consonants: the spread of education -- |t Spelling noises: unspellable noises -- |t Abbreviating -- |t Learning the system: George Crabbe on learning -- |t The future of English spelling. |t A teaching appendix: |t Avoiding isloation ; |t Towards a linguistics of spelling. |
| 520 | |a Presents a history of English spelling through chapters that cover such topics as the introduction of the Roman alphabet, each letter's origins, and the development of long and short vowels. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Orthography and spelling. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Orthography and spelling |x History. | |
| 998 | |a 2013.07.08 | ||
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