Righting the Mother Tongue
by:
David Wolman (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061708459 (0061708453)
Publish date: October 7th 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
For language lovers and orthographists, this is undoubtedly a good introductory read. It's the story of English spelling as told from the slant of spelling reform through the ages. Wolman is writing from the perspective of a bad speller and laments that English is so complicated, with so many exc...