Spell It Out, David Crystal
- Publisher: Profile Books
- ISBN: 9781846685682
- 275.00 Lei
- Ex Tax: 275.00 Lei
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.
Update 27.12.2023
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