Spell it Out: The Story of English Spelling
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Added by: wepr | Karma: 22376.35 | E-Books, Linguistics | 31 July 2013 |
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Spell it Out: The 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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