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

When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it...
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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling by Wolman, David

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

CHF 26.49

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

CHF 26.49
Author: David Wolman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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--not England--where the first English books were printed, and takes a road trip with the boss at Merriam-Webster Inc. Wolman punctuates the journey with spelling wars waged by the likes of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Carnegie.

Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity, and humor, Righting the Mother Tongue explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code, and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words.



Author: David Wolman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.44w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780061369261

About the Author
Wolman, David: -

DAVID WOLMAN is a Contributing Editor at Outside. He has written for the Wired, the New York Times, New Yorker, Nature, and many other publications, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He is the author of The End of Money, Righting the Mother Tongue, and A Left-Hand Turn Around the World. David lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.

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