Spell It Out. The singular story of English spelling
Crystal David
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A unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities.
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. 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.
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. By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right.
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. 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.
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. By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right.
код в Майшоп
5061738
возрастная категория
18+ (нет данных)
количество томов
1
количество страниц
332 стр.
размеры
200x130x20 мм
ISBN
9781846685682
цвет
Синий
вес
240 г
язык
Английский
переплёт
Мягкая обложка
Содержание
Introduction
1. The nature of the problem. Pooh and his friends on
spelling
2. The beginning
3. The size of the problem
4. Building the alphabet. Letter origins
5. The basic weaknesses. Hope for us all
6. Keeping things long. More than letters
7. Keeping things short. Spelling as tragedy
8. The first exceptions
9. Seeing the link. Forensic spelling
10. Know your Latin and French. Spelling as reputation
11. New letters for old
12. Old letters in new words. Tarzan learns to read
13. Old sounds in new positions. Spelling as stratagem
14. New sounds in old places
15. More exceptions. Avoiding the vulgar
16. Showing the difference. Charles Dickens and his
characters reflect upon spelling
17. Noting the similarity. Silent letters
18. New sounds in old letters
19. A printer's practice. Mark Twain on spelling
20. The urge to reform. George Bernard Shaw on
spelling
21. Remembering Latin
22. More etymologies.A word I always mispell
23. Famous spellings
24. Spelling 'rules'. Mrs Malaprop on reading and
spelling
25. The role of personalities
26. Another personality
27. Printers and publishers. Spelling wars
28. Changing practices. Roger McGough on spelling
29. The Internet. Lower case only
30. Showing identity
31. Unpredictability. Ogden Nash on names
32. Exotic vowels. Disenvowelling
33. Exotic consonants. The spread of education
34 .Spelling noises. Unspellable noises
35. Abbreviating
36. Learning the system. George Crabbe on learning
37. The future of English spelling
A teaching appendix
I. Avoiding isolation
II. Towards a linguistics of spelling
Further reading
Illustration credits
Index of words
General index
1. The nature of the problem. Pooh and his friends on
spelling
2. The beginning
3. The size of the problem
4. Building the alphabet. Letter origins
5. The basic weaknesses. Hope for us all
6. Keeping things long. More than letters
7. Keeping things short. Spelling as tragedy
8. The first exceptions
9. Seeing the link. Forensic spelling
10. Know your Latin and French. Spelling as reputation
11. New letters for old
12. Old letters in new words. Tarzan learns to read
13. Old sounds in new positions. Spelling as stratagem
14. New sounds in old places
15. More exceptions. Avoiding the vulgar
16. Showing the difference. Charles Dickens and his
characters reflect upon spelling
17. Noting the similarity. Silent letters
18. New sounds in old letters
19. A printer's practice. Mark Twain on spelling
20. The urge to reform. George Bernard Shaw on
spelling
21. Remembering Latin
22. More etymologies.A word I always mispell
23. Famous spellings
24. Spelling 'rules'. Mrs Malaprop on reading and
spelling
25. The role of personalities
26. Another personality
27. Printers and publishers. Spelling wars
28. Changing practices. Roger McGough on spelling
29. The Internet. Lower case only
30. Showing identity
31. Unpredictability. Ogden Nash on names
32. Exotic vowels. Disenvowelling
33. Exotic consonants. The spread of education
34 .Spelling noises. Unspellable noises
35. Abbreviating
36. Learning the system. George Crabbe on learning
37. The future of English spelling
A teaching appendix
I. Avoiding isolation
II. Towards a linguistics of spelling
Further reading
Illustration credits
Index of words
General index
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