By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right. David Crystals informative account of the rise of English as a global language explores the history, current status and potential of English as the international language of communication. 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 per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent 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 their foreign ears, and it stuck. Spell it Out - The Singular Story of English Spelling Author: David Crystal Book classification: Education, No. Spell It Out: The Story of English Spelling David Crystal 3.93 784 ratings137 reviews Want to read Kindle 11.
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