David Wolman: Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
Скачать книгу (размер 1 070 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 211) Аннотация: Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets…