Spell It Out: The Singular Story Of English Spelling
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| Published | 2012 |
| Authors | David Crystal |
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| ID | 4039839 |
About Spell It Out: The Singular Story Of English Spelling
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. ...
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