Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal ...

David Crystal

Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling\nby David Crystal\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Crystal\nTitle: Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Language: reference and general\nPublisher: Profile Books Ltd\nPublication year: 2013\nEdition: Main\nISBN-13: 9781846685682\nISBN-10: 1846685680\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhy 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.