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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling

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 | #1163862 in Books |  2010-03-23 |  2010-03-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.50 x5.31l,.37 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| It's All About the Spell|By L. M Young|I have a bumper sticker on my car that states the following: "English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar." Wolman, who admits he's had spelling problems for years, evidently agrees with this sentiment in this short, of| |The lively, informative book is full of evidence/cocktail party fodder proving that the English spelling system is a hopeless tangle of French, Dutch, Latin, German and much, much more and really makes no sense at all. (Portland Tribune)

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When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check?

In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he joins spelling reformers picketing the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium&mdas...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling   |  David Wolman. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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